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In the Slick of the Cricket: The True Story Behind the JAWS Epic

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Driven offshore by too many obituaries, a newspaper reporter takes a five-day fishing trip aboard the charter fishing boat Cricket II with Captain Frank Mundus, the godfather of "Jaws." What begins as a short escape for author Russell Drumm quickly turns into a storm-tossed odyssey in which Mundus, on the eve of his retirement, relives his 40 years at sea. He recollects his ingenious methods, his weird collection of charter "Idiots, " and his lasting bitterness toward Peter Benchley for never acknowledging him as the source of the "Jaws" story. "In the Slick of the Cricket" is the richer truth behind that fiction, "I hate fiction, " Mundus warns the author at the start of the trip.

Language: English

Pages: 320

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Penguin Books

Release: August 01, 1998

ISBN: 0140274359

ISBN 13: 9780140274356

In the Slick of the Cricket: The True Story Behind the JAWS Epic

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Driven offshore by too many obituaries, a newspaper reporter takes a five-day fishing trip aboard the charter fishing boat Cricket II with Captain Frank Mundus, the godfather of "Jaws." What begins as a short escape for author Russell Drumm quickly turns into a storm-tossed odyssey in which Mundus, on the eve of his retirement, relives his 40 years at sea. He recollects his ingenious methods, his weird collection of charter "Idiots, " and his lasting bitterness toward Peter Benchley for never acknowledging him as the source of the "Jaws" story. "In the Slick of the Cricket" is the richer truth behind that fiction, "I hate fiction, " Mundus warns the author at the start of the trip.

Language: English

Pages: 320

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Penguin Books

Release: August 01, 1998

ISBN: 0140274359

ISBN 13: 9780140274356

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