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THE DEEP. Hardback - 1976

by BENCHLEY**, PETER:

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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. NFINE/NFINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright, crisp, clean, colour pictorial, wrap-around artwork by Gillian Hills, illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners. Minimal bumping with reciprocal creasing to both head+foot of spine/backstrip and miniscule rubbing to corners and bookseller's label to front inner flap of dw/dj. A small scratch/scrape with miniscule loss of colour paper of artwork, on upper wrap, towards top right-hand corner.Top edge lightly aged and dust-soil with minimal spotting/foxing, fore-edges brighter and cleaner; contents bright, tight and clean.Publisher's bright, clean, sharp-cornered, original pale blue+brown speckled cloth boards with bright, crisp, blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and clean,plain white eps with minimal,faint,off-set foxing from dw/dj's inner flaps. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7-251pp [paginated] includes 11 chapters; plus [unpaginated] blank, half-title-title pages, a dedication, author's Note on last page and a blank to rear.
'The Deep' has all the drama and suspense that made Peter Benchley's first novel, 'Jaws', a worldwide bestseller and the most successful in history (then 1976).
The secret which unlocks the story lies on a coral reef off Bermuda.
It's a harmless-looking ampoule - presumably from the medicine chest of the schooner Goliath which went down during World War Two. It is found by Gail and David Sanders, honeymooners who chose Bermuda for the diving they love. An agreeable underwater potter, a curious find .... and suddenly Gailand David are plunged headlong into a situation of appalling danger.
It comes from Cloche, the sinister revolutionary whose political pull embraces the island's authorities and whose reputation as a 'bush' magician terrifies the poplace. To get his hands on what that ampoule represents, Cloche will stop at nothing.The Sanders' only ally against him is Romer Treece, diver and treasue-hunter extraordinairy, who is afraid of nothing in or out of water and has his own good reasons for thwarting Cloche. From him they learn that the 'Goliath' was not the reef's only victim, nor is her cargo its only secret.
What follows is a race against time, a battle of wits against Cloche and a daring challenge to the sea and the perils it conceals.
Peter Benchley writes of the underwater world with breathtaking authority: the terrors that lurk at the edge of the diver's vision, the seductive promise of what may be hidden under the next lump of coral, or the next. And his touch is no less sure with the desperate human drama triggered by that small, apparently harmless object picked up off the sand.
The innumerable admirers of 'Jaws' will expect a great deal from 'The Deep'.They will not be disappointed.
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  • Title THE DEEP.
  • Author BENCHLEY**, PETER:
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
  • Condition Used - Near FINE.
  • Pages 252
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher LONDON.ANDRE DEUTSCH LIMITED,1976., London
  • Publication date 1976
  • Bookseller's Inventory # rja407312
  • ISBN 9780233967936
  • Quantity available 1
  • Bookseller catalogues MODERN FIRSTS2

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