Peter Benchley''s Jaws first appeared in 1974. Alongside Steven Spielberg''s film adaptation, the novel has sold over 20 million copies around the world, becoming a cult classic.

It''s never safe to go back in the water . . .

It was just another day in the life of a small Atlantic resort until the terror from the deep came to prey on unwary holidaymakers. The first sign of trouble, a warning of what was to come, took the form of a young woman''s body - or what was left of it - washed up on the long, white stretch of beach.

A summer of terror has begun . . .