Superlative narrative nonfiction. Gives you a fullly colorized portrait (even if your head tries to sepia-tone it) of US society just on the latter cusp of the Edwardian Age, and roaring down the middle comes this big blade of a fin (and, like Titanic) knocking all of our hubris asunder in a spreading pool of blood. Nature is indeed red in tooth and claw, as we'd come to confirm in the looming World War to end all wars. A gripping, chilling and unputdownable read, especially for we of the Gen X who grew up with, and wisely swam less because of, 'Jaws'."