In the novelisation of "The Spy Who Loved Me", Wood specifically states that Jaws is a mute. However, though Jaws remains mute in Wood's "James Bond and Moonraker" novelisation, he actually "does" speak at the end of the film. In the book, Jaws remains attached to the magnet that Bond dips into the tank, as opposed to the film where Bond releases Jaws from the magnet into the water: "Now both hands were tearing at the magnet, and Jaws twisted furiously like a fish on the hook. As Bond watched in fascinated horror, a relentless triangle streaked up behind the stricken giant. A huge gray force launched itself through the wild water, and two rows of white teeth closed around the threshing flesh."