Jaws 2

A pretty good read but not as good as the first one. The story is pretty much the same'A Shark after people. and the shark gets it in the end. for anyone that has not read any Jaws books i would suggest you start with the first Jaws because it is without a doubt the best one. now am off to read a new Elvis book!

It has been two years since The Trouble, when a Great White shark swam into the waters off of Amity and refused to go away, and the town is just starting to recover. What no one knows is that another shark has entered into the waters and is making itself just as much at home as the first one did. This novelization is adapted from the script by Dorothy Tristan and Howard Sackler. However Tristan had to leave the project when her husband, director John Hancock, was replaced by Jeannot Szwarc and Jaws screenwriter Carl Gottlieb was called in to do a massive rewrite, in the end only co-screenwriter Howard Sackler retained credit. While many events in the completed film can be glimpsed in this story (two photograph taking scuba divers attacked at the wreck of the Orca, the picture they take of the shark becoming an important plot point later, a water skier gets gulped and the speedboat blows up, a scuba diver bumps into the shark and shoots to the surface way too fast, a helicopter gets yanked under, and a group of shark bait kids are attacked and trapped at sea during a boat race), but their context within the discarded storyline are radically different. Author Hank Searls adds a welcome amount of detail to the story, some, such as getting into the mind of both the shark and a harbor seal searching for its lost child, foreshadow his masterful whale novel Soundings. The book is somewhat better written than Benchley's source novel, but it does not contain the visceral terror of the original, then again how could it? Nonetheless, Jaws fans should seek this out, just to see what could have been a far better sequel. Recommended.