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The Dawn Patrol
by: Don Winslow

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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780307266200
ISBN: 0307266206
Label: Knopf
Manufacturer: Knopf
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: June 03, 2008
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date: June 03, 2008
Sales Rank: 23109
Studio: Knopf

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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.

Boone Daniels lives to surf. 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. Or nearly. 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.”

But 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. He blames himself—just as almost everyone in the department does—for not being able to save her. Now, when he can’t say no to a gorgeous, bossy lawyer who wants his help investigating an insurance scam, he’s unexpectedly staring at a chance to make some amends—and take some revenge—for Rain’s disappearance. It might mean missing the most colossal waves he’s liable to encounter (not to mention putting The Dawn Patrol in serious harm’s way as he tangles with the local thuggery), but this investigation is about to give him a wilder ride than any he’s ever imagined.

Harrowing and funny, righteous and outrageous, The Dawn Patrol is epic macking crunchy from start to finish.

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- The only constant is change.
Boone Daniels (ex-policeman and current private investigator) is a member of The Dawn Patrol. The Dawn Patrol consists of four men and one woman: Boone, Hang Twelve, Dave the Love God, Johnny Banzai, High Tide, and Sunny Day. All of them serious surfers and they're more than best friends; they are an ocean loving, fun seeking, surf family.

A few days before the biggest wave of their lives, a female lawyer comes to Boone for help. She is trying to locate a witness to a fire that she desperately needs to testify in an insurance fraud case. If Boone wasn't so broke and if Petra, the lawyer, weren't so beautiful, it would have been easy to turn the job down; the last thing Boone wants is to miss the biggest most prime wave of his life.

This was an extraordinarily fun novel, which covers a very serious issue. It takes place in San Diego; I've been there a few times, and it was fun to re-visit ... Read More

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- Fun, but not entirely accurate
This novel is a great beach read, but the author got a few things wrong, e.g., nobody in California calls Pacific Coast Highway the PCH (it's just "PCH", no "the"), and he got goofyfoot reversed (right foot forward, not left forward, is goofyfoot). Of course, the author might have fallen victim to an ignorant copyeditor who thought s/he knew better.

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- Not exactly riding the wave
It's not that it's badly written. Far from it. But for some of us who ache for the next Don Winslow book, The Dawn Patrol has to be something of a disappointment. If it was by any other writer, it would be a much acclaimed triumph, but Winslow has set the bar very high with Power of the Dog and The Winter of Frankie Machine. With The Dawn Patrol, he hasn't raised that bar or, sadly, even cleared it. The story is a little one-dimensional, it was difficult to find much affection for the characters and maybe I just don't relate to the surfing scene.

Author Ian Rankin is right in saying Winslow is a secret you don't want to share with anyone else but this isn't one of those books that you never want to end. Ah well, only a couple of years or so to the next one.

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- Epic Macking Crunchy
macking crunchy.

That is the term, in Surfbonics, a character in Don Winslow's The Dawn Patrol uses to describe the big wave that is approaching the beaches of San Diego. It's a once-per-twenty-years ocean eruption that makes and breaks careers and that every surfer worth his weight in sunscreen comes to So Cal to experience. And it's all Boone Daniels wants.

Except Boone, a PI who works just enough to pay some bills, has a new case. It's a case he doesn't want. He'll happily get to it after the big swell. But his client--drop-dead gorgeous Brit Petra--is having none of it. So, Boone has to stow his board and wave bye-bye to the other members of the Dawn Patrol--a group that meets every morning to surf--to go look for a lost stripper who needs to testify in an upcoming trial.

From that seemingly inauspicious beginning, Winslow throws the reader into the world of southern California. ... Read More

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