The Deep

By: Peter Benchley

Narrated by: Mark Feuerstein

A young couple go to Bermuda on their honeymoon. They 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.©2009 BBC Audiobooks America; 1976 Peter Benchley

Great Voice Work

I thought good voice work was a recent thing,this book proved me wrong. Great story about some ocean diving and well performed.

Not Jaws but still a great listen

Being a fan of more the creature style stories like Jaws and White Shark, The Deep should have felt lacking but instead was excited and unexpected. Overall fun listen.

Good but not great

The story was OK but not as good as I thought it would be, considering how much I love Jaws. This book would’ve worked better as a novella or short story.

Not great.

I think we will all love Peter Benchley for his iconic work, Jaws, for all time. But this is a mediocre story at best, with a very abrupt and unsatisfying ending. For a forward looking back perspective of someone who did not grow up in the 50s/60s this is an interesting look into what would be considered main stream action in the day. I kept thinking the characters would be perfect in an Old Noire Hollywood movie. They were almost laughably stereotypical. The woman especially. Because they lack depth. If you like Benchley, read this for a peek into his mind, you can see glimmers of his fascination with sharks and the sea at large. Other than that, I'd pass. Oh the voice actor did an awesome job.

Good book

I think this was made into the movie “Into the Blue”? Or at least they are similar. Anyway…a good book with good narration. I didn’t care for the ending, as it left too many questions left unanswered. Was there a book 2? I’ll have to check.