The Deep by Peter Benchley, Bantam Books, NY, 1977, 291 pp..

Bantam 10422-5. April 1977. 1st printing. Movie tie-in edition with back cover photo stills from the film featuring Robert Shaw, Nick Nolte, Jacqueline Bisset, Lou Gossett and Eli Wallach. 

The book lies flat and square. Some rubbing at the top of the front cover. Light crease to spine. Light rubbing to the back cover. Minor toning to pages. Interior free of any markings. 

[Wadle #658]

Condition - Very Good Plus.

312056

After graduating from Harvard, Peter Benchley 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, and Beast, among others. He wrote screenplays for three of his novels, and his articles and essays appeared in such publications as National Geographic and The New York Times. He wrote, narrated, and appeared in dozens of television documentaries and was a member of the national council of Environmental Defense and a spokesman for its Oceans Program.

A young couple go to Bermuda on their honeymoon. The dive on the reefs offshore, looking for the wreck of a sunken ship. What they find lures them into a strange and increasingly terrifying encounter with past and present, a struggle for salvage and survival along the floor of the sea, in the deep.