The Gentlemen's Hour could be called a beach read, but it gives you plenty to think about even after you've packed up the car and headed for home.e e"Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal, "I've long been impressed by Don Winslow's novels. But, as with Southern California's supposedly solid ground and its potential to crumble and collapse, there is movement beneath the surface. It's The Gentlemen's Hour -and it could be Boone's last.Įoe down-and-dirty dip into the treacherous social currents of Southern California. He soon finds himself out there alone, struggling to stay afloat as the waves get rougher and rougher. As Boone digs deeper into San Diego's murkier side, delving into places the city's reputationconscious establishment would rather he left alone, it becomes clear that more than a murder case is at stake. He's risking losing the relationships that define his life- just when he needs them most. But when he agrees to help the defense, the outrage he courts from the community, and the Dawn Patrol, is more than he ever anticipated. Boone knows he can no longer ignore the painful truth that violence is seeping into the surfing community. To him, "There's no such thing as a bad day at the beach." So when one of their own is murdered-especially an icon like Kelly Kuhio, a local hero-and another surfer, a young punk from the Rockpile Crew, stands accused, the small world of Pacific Beach is rocked to its core. Laid back, ultra-California cool, the former cop turned PI begins each day with the Dawn Patrol, a close-knit group of surfers, best friends who not only ride waves together but have one another's backs out of the water. Winslow ensures there's nothing "gentlemanly" about the action. The title refers to the "second shift on the daily surfing clock" after the dawn patrol. Dumped headfirst into a dark ocean of "localism," Boone must also contend with surfers trying to keep their beaches for themselves and threats from the Mexican cartels.
Corey is accused of the beating death of surfing legend Kelly Kuhio, "Uncle K" to Boone, who worshipped him as a kid. Worse, Boone's new slow-burning flame, lawyer Petra Hall, wants him for the defense of 19-year-old Corey Blasingame, tied in with the Rockpile Crew, a surfing gang with a neo-Nazi skinhead agenda, from up the coast. First, fellow board rider Dan Nichols suspects his wife, "an eleven on a California scale of ten," is cheating on him and wants Boone to spy on her. Surfer dude PI Boone Daniels reluctantly takes on two cases. The laidback calm of the Southern California surfing community of Pacific Beach boils over violently in Winslow's fast-paced sequel to The Dawn Patrol (2008).
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