Cruel Jaws

THEY NEED A BIGGER BOAT. THEY NEED BIGGER GUNS. THEY NEED TO GET THE F*CK OUT OF THERE. Welcome to Hampton Bay, a small resort town on Florida's Redneck Riviera where tourists bake on the beach, gnaw on corndogs, and splash in the cool Gulf waters. But just a few hundred yards offshore, something else has come to feed: a school-bus sized death machine, gunmetal grey with eyes that shine dead black and jaws that rip swimmers in half with one cruel chomp. And while the alcoholic sheriff, the grandstanding mayor, the rich jerk landowner, and the organized crime family from New York all choose to ignore the increasingly bloody tides, summer abruptly ends when the annual regatta becomes a feeding frenzy of roiling carnage. Now their only hope is a marine biology dropout and the proprietor of a rundown aquarium park who must destroy a genetically modified monster spawned from the murky depths of hell...or perhaps somewhere even far more insidious. From Brad Carter - whose Severin Films/Encyclopocalypse Publications novelizations include MARDI GRAS MASSACRE, NIGHT OF THE DEMON, VIRUS: HELL OF THE LIVING DEAD and RATS: NIGHT OF TERROR - comes this "sleazy, gory and action-packed schlockfest that's a blast to read" (The Horror Shark), inspired by director Bruno Mattei's brazenly litigious 1995 Sharksploitation classic that was briefly released in some countries as JAWS 5.

Something sinister has come to the coastal town of Hampton Bay. Something horrifying and colossal that refuses to stop killing until the white sand beaches are blood red. Now, a renegade shark expert and a down on his luck lawman are all that stand between a genetically engineered killing machine and thousands of blissfully unaware tourists. It's a race against time, bureaucratic red tape, and the mafia to stop a homicidal shark from turning a holiday weekend into a nightmare of carnage. Based on the notorious film by Bruno Mattei and packed with thrills, CRUEL JAWS will destroy your ideas about humanity's place in the food chain. Includes a foreword by Stephen Scarlata, director of Sharksploitation .