Boone Daniels (7 books in series)
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review 1: La pattuglia dell'alba è composta di sei amici, quanto più diversi l'uno dall'altro, ma con una passione assoluta che li accomuna, quella del surf e che fa sì che ogni mattina, all'alba, prima dei rispettivi lavori, i sei si ritrovino a pagaiare e surfare a Pacific Beach. In que...
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review 1: Boone Daniels è un ex poliziotto, ora investigatore privato. E’ un uomo che non chiede molto alla sua vita, se non quella di poter uscire all’alba insieme ai suoi amici a surfare e quello di mangiare qualche tortilla ripiena di carne, uova o pesce. Perché non c’è niente di meglio...
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review 1: Rock solid effort from Don Winslow.As always, I like the SoCal lifestyle, setting and lingo. The prose is lyrical cool, which is always a plus.The only problem is the story fizzled out in the second half. Enemies were introduced too late and disappeared too fast. Showdown include...
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review 1: As I really liked the first novel featuring Daniel Boone, the surfing investigator, I definitely wanted to continue the series. And again, 'The Gentlemen's Hour' was a very enjoyable read, depicting the surfer community in a very easy-going way. The case itself is quite thrilling...
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review 1: If he only would have kept it 20 pages shorter, leaving out the over the top cliché end and keeping it a bit open, it would have been nearly perfect. It starts slow, Winslow being busy to briefly recreate the universe of "the Dawn Patrol", then step by step builds up the new char...
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review 1: Another good read from Don Winslow! This one has a surfer/detective Boone Daniels dealing with the temptation of huge waves on the horizon, and a missing witness for the court. Along with his friends, Sunny Day, Hang Twelve, High Tide, Dave the Love God, Johnny Banzai, Cheerful...
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review 1: I picked up this book solely to fulfill a library reading program requirement (read a book about surfing), but I was very pleasantly surprised. The Gentleman's Hour is a delightful and fairly light-hearted crime novel, with fun, engaging characters, a witty writing voice and a go...