Author:Don Winslow
Boone Daniels is a laid-back kind of private investigator. He has sleuthing skills to burn but is rarely out of his boardshorts, and with a huge Pacific storm approaching San Diego, Boone wants to be there to ride the once-in-a-lifetime waves with his buddies in the Dawn Patrol. Unfortunately he's just landed a case involving one dead and one missing stripper, but with the help - or hindrance, Boone thinks - of uptight lawyer Petra Hall, he's determined to wrap it up in time for the epic surf.
But all sorts of trouble follows with Hawaiian gangs and trafficked Mexican girls, as the case turns dark and personal, raising ghosts from Boone's troubled past and dragging in Sunny and the rest of the Dawn Patrol. The currents turn treacherous on land and at sea as the big swell makes landfall, and Boone has to fight just to keep his head above water...
It's no mean achievement to make the world of surfing fascinating to confirmed landlubbers . . . Slowly builds to a moving, lethal climax that will take your breath away
—— Evening StandardWinslow creates ripping plots . . . Convincing characters, an exotic setting . . . Winslow knows exactly when to pile on the pressure
—— Henry Sutton , The MirrorWitty and enjoyable crime thriller
—— Independent on SundayMight be the best summertime crime novel ever
—— San Francisco ChronicleHeartbreaking . . . Could be a breakthrough for Winslow
—— Los Angeles TimesOne of the most entertaining beach books of this - or any other - summer . . . [A] rocketing thriller
—— The Times-PicayuneColossally cool . . . Captures the essence of Southern California itself: forecast sunny and clear, with an undertow of darkness
—— San Antonio Express-NewsWinslow is a sensational writer
—— Independent on SundayAt a time when many successful crime and thriller writers produce a book a year, Don Winslow stands out. He is one of the best
—— Times Literary SupplementIf you've never read Don Winslow, start now
—— Val McDermidDon Winslow is the kind of cult writer who is so good you almost want to keep him to yourself
—— Ian RankinA fiction whose effect on the reader is almost as addictive as the slimming sweets on which Eugene becomes so disturbingly dependent
—— Sunday TelegraphRuth Rendell's sense of place and disdain for her characters elevates a sordid case of arson into an artful exploration of sinister self-delusion
—— Books of the Year, Evening StandardShe has made the city her own, and writes with both knowledge and compassion about its streets and buildings, its transport and its shops - and above all about its inhabitants ... As ever Rendell writes with wry and witty authority ... It's intelligent stuff, and very readable
—— SpectatorRendell is marvellous at psychological tension, and the suspicion that these ways will be sinister is what hooks the reader. Setting out her cast with conviction, she unrolls their lives at a stately, ominous pace
—— The Sunday TimesPsychologically acute and extremely disturbing, Ruth Rendell's work is outstanding
—— The TimesRendell has a Dickensian empathy, informed by a prodigious love of London life. Her account, bursting with colour and vitality, is a treat to read
—— The Independent
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