He blames himself-just as almost everyone in the department does-for not being able to save her. They have “real j-o-b-s” Boone works as a PI just enough to keep himself in fish tacos and wet suits-and in the water whenever the waves are “epic macking crunchy.”īut Boone is also obsessed with the unsolved case of a young girl named Rain who was abducted back when he was on the San Diego police force. Every morning he’s out in the break off Pacific Beach with the other members of The Dawn Patrol: four men and one woman as single-minded about surfing as he is.
Author tour.The author of The Winter of Frankie Machine (“another instant classic”-Lee Child) is back with a razor-sharp novel as cool and unbridled as its California surfer heroes, as heart-stopping as a wave none of them sees coming.īoone Daniels lives to surf. A complex plot, well-drawn characters and plenty of double-crossing make this a thinking person's narco-thriller. Winslow's depth of research and unflagging attention to detail give the story both heft and immediacy, and his staccato, present-tense prose shifts easily among wildly disparate settings and multiple points of view. and Mexico governments, to a final showdown on the U.S.
Winslow follows these four characters and assorted extras as they cross paths over three decades in the international drug trade, from Keller's first encounter with Barrera in 1970s Mexico, through the drug cartels' corruption of government officials in the U.S.
And Sean Callan is a taciturn mob hit man, a stone-cold killer who just wants out of the life. Nora Hayden is a high-class call girl whose heart is in the right place. Adan Barrera is an urbane drug dealer whose charm masks his brutality. Art Keller is a brilliant DEA agent who sometimes breaks the rules to serve justice.
The war on drugs is powerfully dramatized in Winslow's ambitious, dense and gritty latest (after 1999's California Fire and Life
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