Jaws

Published in 1974, this thriller is set in the Long Island resort of Amity, where a great white shark begins to kill swimmers just as the summer season opens. Police chief Martin Brody wants the beaches closed; the mayor and local business resist. Oceanographer Matt Hooper arrives to identify the animal, and the three men finally hire Quint, a scarred shark fisherman, to hunt it from his boat. Ashore, Brody's marriage and the town's money worries run beside the attacks. The novel is a procedural of fear and civic denial, ending on the water in a chase that pits skill and stubbornness against a single predator.

Bound in picture printed, blocked, and soft-touch laminated black paper. Red slipcase blocked with a grey image.