Welcome to Paradise: Now Go to Hell: A True Story of Violence, Corruption, and the Soul of Surfing

Welcome to Paradise, Now Go to Hell: A True Story of Violence, Corruption, and the Soul of Surfing, by Chas Smith... slightly read copy CRISP CLEAN- -interesting book, Two months every winter, when Pacific storms make landfall, swarms of mainlanders, Brazilians, Australians, Europeans flock to Oahu's paradisiacal North Shore in pursuit of some of the greatest waves on earth for surfing's Triple Crown competition... Book is surfer / former war reporter Chas Smith's semi - biographical ,wild - unflinching look at the high-stakes world of surfing on Oahu's North Shore—this influx transforms a sleepy, laid-back strip of coast.. a riveting, often humorous, account of beauty, greed, danger, into a lawless, violent, drug-addled, adrenaline-soaked mecca....finalist for the PEN Center USA Award for Nonfiction... Welcome to Paradise, Now Go to Hell: A True Story of Violence, Corruption, and the Soul of Surfing... Author Chas Smith - Publisher Harper Collins, 2013- ISBN 0062202545, 9780062202543 256 pages - Cover photograph Brian Bielmann, author photo Derek Dunfee - Subjects History ' United States ' State & Local ' West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)- History / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) Sports & Recreation / Surfing True Crime / General Oahu North Shore....finalist for the PEN Center USA Award for Nonfiction..Ruth Reaser..LAX Vespa, Los Angeles Culver City- maybe this will do it!-At least you know what you're getting into--Media Mail USPS-you get the copy pictured - carefully Drop kick-packed to protect it - in - transit. 7 Days Coast to Coast, faster if closer.WEL PARADISE 6214 PB RED COLEMAN SB