by Kem Nunn · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 3260050873734
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«Surf City» is the crime novel by Kem Nunn, published by Gallimard in paperback (352 pages, in French).
Ike Tucker has lived alone at a desert gas station with his uncle Gordon. When his sister Ellen disappears after going to try her luck on the beaches of southern California, Ike buys a surfboard and heads into the Pacific; there he discovers a world of shady interests and hidden truths.
The French edition was published in 2013 and belongs to the Folio policier collection.
Fans of crime fiction and suspense stories set in the world of surfing.
Kem Nunn is a third-generation Californian novelist, surfer, and magazine and television writer who lives in southern California. He has been described as "the inventor of surf-noir" for his novels' dark themes, political overtones, and surf settings. He is the author of six novels, including his 1984 seminal debut surf novel Tapping the Source, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Tapping The Source inspired the 1991 movie Point Break, and its 2015 remake. Nunn's novel, Tijuana Straights, received a Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
