Close to ShoreBy: Michael Capuzzo Combining rich historical detail and a harrowing, pulse pounding narrative, Close to Shore brilliantly re creates the summer of 1916, when a rogue Great White shark attacked swimmers along the New Jersey shore, triggering mass hysteria and launching the most extensive shark hunt in history. In July 1916 a lone Great White left its usual deep ocean habitat and headed in the direction of the New Jersey shoreline. There, near the