1975 Book Clud Associates. Hardcover, 272 pages. A girl swims lazily in the cool midnight sea - the shark, attracted by the movement, glides unerringly on to its prey; and the girl is next seen as a hideously mangled carcass in the flotsam left by the receding tide: so begins the terror which will reign in Amity, a holiday resort on Long Island which is just preparing for another successful summer season....