This is supposedly the novel that the movie, Point Break (surfing bankrobbers), was based on. The genre is surf noir. I see the similarities but there are quite a differences. Really they don't have much in common besides the genre and the feel.
This one is set in a grimy version of Huntington Beach and involves a murder by two washed up Vietnam vet surfers who get involved a satanic cult.
He's a good writer and really does get the mood right, but it's a little hollow. The one thing I took away from it was the strange similarity between the inland empire and this urban beach.
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