Since Jaws scared a nation of moviegoers out of the water three decades ago, great white
sharks have attained a mythic status as the most frightening and mysterious monsters to still live
among us. Each fall, just twenty-seven miles off the San Francisco coast, in the waters
surrounding a desolate rocky island chain, the world’s largest congregation of these fearsome
predators gathers to feed.
Journalist Susan Casey first saw the great whites of the Farallones in a television documentary.
Within months, she was sitting with two shark scientists in a small motorboat as the sharks –
some as long as twenty feet, as wide as a semitrailer – circled around them. From this first
encounter, Casey became obsessed with these awe-inspiring creatures, and a plan was hatched for her
to join the scientists and follow their research. The Devil’s Teeth is the riveting
account of that one fateful shark season.
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