“A human being is still more likely to die of a bee sting, snake bite or, Lord knows, automobile accident than by shark attack. We do not execute the perpretrators of death by car. We should not butcher an animal for an inadvertent homicide.”

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Books by Peter Benchley

White Shark

1995

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The Island

1980

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