Books

Dawn Patrol, by Don Winslow (2008): Boone Daniels, a surfer dude who's a former cop and now a lazy but brilliant P.I., investigates the disappearance of a stripper in this novel that's dense with surfer lingo and some Point Break-style mumbo jumbo about the mysticism of riding a killer wave, dude. The book's fine, the plot's solid, the prose interesting, but man, that surfing talk gets pretty deep up in here.... »Read more »

Black Widow by Randy Wayne White (2008)... »Read more »

All right, I've read John Sandford's Phantom Prey now (actually, I read it two months ago, but who's counting?), but before I write about that, I wanted to write about some of the books I read while waiting for it to come out, and in the two months since while wondering when the next one arrives. June 2009? (I think I've mentioned before that I mark my reading life, in part, by the time between Prey novels.)... »Read more »

Don't hate me because I have an Ayn Rand story. I was young, I promise.... »Read more »