For Stan Waterman
â
sui generis
ALSO BY PETER BENCHLEY
Time and a Ticket
Jaws
The Deep
The Island
The Girl of the Sea of Cortez
Q Clearance
Rummies
Beast
White Shark
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
After graduating from Harvard, P
ETER
B
ENCHLEY
worked as a reporter for
The Washington Post,
then as an editor at
Newsweek
and a speechwriter in the White House. His novel
Jaws
was published in 1974, followed by
The Deep, The Island, The Girl of the Sea of Cortez, Q Clearance, Rummies, Beast,
and
White Shark
. He has written screenplays for three of his novels, and his articles and essays have appeared in such publications as
National Geographic
and
The New York Times
. He has written, narrated, and appeared in dozens of television documentaries. He is a member of the national council of Environmental Defense and is a spokesman for its Oceans Program.