As his closest friendships begin to fray, and he digs deeper into the murkier side of surfing culture, Boone sees his two cases overlap in unexpected ways and finds himself struggling to stay afloat as the water gets deeper and deeper.and more deadly.
So when lawyer Petra Hall, who has a thing with Boone, asks him to help the defence on that particular case, Boone knows he'll be courting outrage from the community.and from the rest of the Dawn Patrol. When The Sundowner, symbolic icon of the San Diego surf scene, sees a dispute between a young surfer and a member of the territorial Rockpile Crew - a dispute that ends in murder - the painful truth that violence is seeping into the surf community can no longer be ignored. But that soon becomes the least of his worries. The Gentleman’s Hour is Winslow’s sequel to his excellent novel The Dawn Patrol. Having no work at the moment, and no real reason to go to the office other than to see the red ink getting redder, Boone sticks around for the second shift on the daily surfing clock - the Gentlemen's Hour, frequented by the older veteranos and successful entrepreneurs - and ends up taking on a hated matrimonial case. There's no surf to speak of, but the Dawn Patrol are out in force 's what they do.
And Red Eddie, the Hawaiian/Portuguese/Chinese/Mexican Harvard and Wharton graduate gangster who owes Boone for saving his son’s life.Boone Daniels, the most laid-back of private investigators, gathers with his surfing buddies on Pacific Beach, California as per usual. Then there’s Cheerful, the ornery billionaire who has made it his personal mission to straighten out Boone’s always precarious finances. Boone’s friends are more like his family: Dave the Love God (an appropriate take on his profession as a lifeguard and his extracurriculars) Johnny Banzai, the hard-charging Japanese-American homicide investigator High Tide, the 360-lb Samoan Hang Twelve, the neo-hippie soul surfer who has six toes on each foot and Boone’s on-and-off-again love interest Sunny Day, the best surfer of the bunch. He and his crew, glossed ‘The Dawn Patrol,’ usually ride the break alongside Crystal Pier. Boone works as an investigator just enough to keep himself afloat. When you need something the PD can’t or won’t do, the San Diego ex-cop-turned-investigator is your go-to guy.īetter go down to the beach rather than put in a call, though, because you’re far more likely to find Boone out on a board than in his office.
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