Desperation Reef

Ghost Wave: The Discovery of Cortes Bank and the Biggest Wave on Earth by Chris Dixon

Caught Inside: A Surfer’s Year on the California Coast by Daniel Duane

Women on Waves by Jim Kempton

“Surf noir” is a literary subgenre that I’ve enjoyed since Kem Nunn’s wonderful Tapping the Source pretty much put surf noir on the map. His Tijuana Straits and The Dogs of Winter are wonderful, too.

Don Winslow’s novellas Sunset and Paradise — part of Broken — are powerful stories, steeped in surfing life and death.

Thank you, writers, you inspire.

Thank you, waves, you seduce and sometimes terrify.

Thank you, champion agents, Mark and Robert Gottlieb of Trident Media Group, and my wise and exacting editor at Forge, Kristin Sevick, for helping me make the paddle out and the drop into Desperation Reef.

And thank you, Rita, for life, love, and laughter.