Title: Jaws
First published: 1976
Description: Jaws is a 1974 novel by American writer Peter Benchley. It tells the story of a great white shark that preys upon a small resort town and the voyage of three men trying to kill it. The novel grew out of Benchley's interest in shark attacks after he learned about the exploits of Montauk, New York shark fisherman Frank Mundus in 1964. Doubleday commissioned him to write the novel in 1971, a period when Benchley worked as a freelance journalist.

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Also contained in:

 - [Best Sellers from Reader's Digest Condensed Books](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15134116W)
 - [Reader's Digest Condensed Books. Volume 2 - 1974](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15150299W)
 - [Three Complete Novels](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3454878W/)
Subjects: blue sharks, dolphins, shark cage diving, bang sticks, harpoons, Mafia, selectmen, connivance, great white sharks, thrillers, horror fiction, Fiction, Marine biologists, Police chiefs, Seaside resorts, Shark attacks, Sharks, Sea stories, Fiction, horror, Fiction, thrillers, general, Fiction, action & adventure, Jaws (Motion picture), Fiction, sea stories, Scientists, fiction, white shark, shark fishing, United states, fiction, Fiction, suspense, Fiction, thrillers, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, American fiction, Translations into Spanish, Spanish fiction, Literatura estadounidense, Roman espagnol, Fishes, Requins, Romans, nouvelles
Places: Amity, Long Island, New York, Woods Hole Institute
People: Chrissie Watkins, Martin Brody, Larry Vaughan, Harry Meadows, Alex Kintner, Ben Gardner, Leonard Hendricks, Matt Hooper, Ellen Brody, David Hooper, Quint