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  2. Peter Benchley - Wikipedia

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    Peter Bradford Benchley (May 8, 1940 – February 11, 2006) was an American author, screenwriter, and environmental activist. He is known for his bestselling novel Jaws and co-wrote its movie adaptation with Carl Gottlieb. Several more of his works were also adapted for both cinema and television, including The Deep, The Island, Beast, and ...

  3. Jaws (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Jaws (novel) Jaws is a novel by American writer Peter Benchley, published in 1974. It tells the story of a large great white shark that preys upon a small Long Island resort town and the three men who attempt to kill it. The novel grew out of Benchley's interest in shark attacks after he read about the exploits of Frank Mundus, a shark ...

  4. White Shark (novel) - Wikipedia

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    White Shark. White Shark is a 1994 novel by author Peter Benchley, famous for Jaws, The Island, Beast and The Deep. [1] It is similar to Jaws, but it does not feature a shark, despite what the title suggests. To avoid confusion and to capitalize on the miniseries adaptation, the book was republished as Creature in 1997.

  5. 'Jaws' at 50: Peter Benchley's toothy terror tapped a ... - AOL

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    June 24, 2024 at 5:09 AM. It's been 50 years since the late author Peter Benchley introduced us to "Jaws," a fictional man-eating great white shark that terrorized the summer resort village of ...

  6. The Island (Benchley novel) - Wikipedia

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    302. ISBN. 0-385-13172-0. The Island is a novel by Peter Benchley, published in 1979 by Doubleday & Co. It is about a journalist and his son who are captured by a band of modern-day pirates in the Caribbean, who brainwash the boy and groom him to become leader of the pirate band. In 1980, it was made into a film adaptation under the same title ...

  7. Beast (Benchley novel) - Wikipedia

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    The creature is attracted by hormones Herbert Talley cultivated from a pair of dead giant squid in an attempt to trap it. The trap fails, and the enraged squid threatens to sink their vessel. Whip Darling wounds the creature with an explosive he and Marcus Sharpe had made, but the creature survives. Before the squid can kill them, however, a ...

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