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People go to Huntington Beach in search of the endless parties, the ultimate highs, and the perfect waves. Ike Tucker has come to look for his missing sister and for the three men who may have murdered her. In that place of gilded surfers and sun-bleached blonds, Ike's search takes him on a journey through a twisted world of crazed Vietnam vets, sadistic surfers, drug dealers, and mysterious seducers. He looks into the shadows and finds parties that drift toward pointless violence, joyless vacations, and highs you may never come down from...

Jack Fletcher is hired to take pictures of a dangerous, premier mysto surf spot off the Pacific Northwest. But disaster soon strikes when an Indian boy drowns - and the men from his reservation seek vengeance .

When Fahey, once a great surfer, now a reclusive ex-con, meets Magdalena, she is running from a pack of wild dogs along the ragged wasteland where California and Mexico meet the Pacific Ocean - a spot once known to the men who rode its giant waves as the Tijuana Straits. Magdalena has barely survived an attack on her life and Fahey, against his every instinct, takes her in.

Quando Jaclyn Blackstone varca la soglia del suo studio, Eldon Chance non può immaginare che quella che all'apparenza è solo l'ennesima paziente affetta da amnesie possa rappresentare il più grave pericolo che abbia mai corso. Il dottor Chance è un rinomato neuropsichiatra di San Francisco nel bel mezzo di un divorzio difficile, alle prese con i problemi di una figlia adolescente piuttosto complicata, con l'invidia dei colleghi e con grane finanziarie che non gli danno tregua.

"Wellenjagd" erzählt die die Geschichte von Ike Tucker, einem jungen Mann aus der kalifornischen Wüste, den es auf der Suche nach seiner Schwester an die Küste verschlägt, wo er unter Surfern und Rockern in einen Sumpf aus Drogen, Pornografie und Gewalt gerät und schießlich einem furchtbaren Geheimnis auf die Spur kommt. Kem Nunn, geboren 1948 in Kalifornien, schrieb zahlreiche Romane, von denen die meisten in der Surferszene Kaliforniens spielen. Sie sind düster, voller Gewalt und Verbrechen, aber auch geprägt von politischer und kultureller Kritik an den Verhältnissen in Kalifornien.