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

I loved this book. You don't find a lot of books about Sharkin around. I swear that I could almost taste the salt air of the Atlantic Ocean while reading this. Hats off to the author and thanks for the wonderful bio of Frank Mundus.

Just when you thought it was safe to ..... read a book... "Cricket" offers an insight to the man that inspired the role of "Quint" in the movie "Jaws".Frank Mundus is a unique character...honest, poetic, funny, intelligent, old school. Too bad there are not more fisherman like him....I give it 4 fins.

Capt. Mundis hunt for the great white sharks off Montauk,NY is an expose of human foibles. The very people he took fishing,turn around and become a part of the feeding frenzy of exploitation of the oceans. Russel Drumm,the author,writes of subjects he knows intimately. The prose flows with the ebb and fall of the tides. This is a book of the sea by men of the sea.

Whatever preconceived notions you hold about this wonderful book, be prepared to push your personal horizons farther than even the great Frank Mundus might care to go. Drumm is a find. He writes about shark fishing in a way that makes it a metaphor for much greater things. That's not meant to take away from the fact that this book is first and foremost about the "Monster Man's" greatest accomplishments. It is very much what you might expect. But it is also a fresh and original exploration into the personal and collective oceans within us all. Read it to recover a sense of awe.