Wipeout! & Hanging Ten in Paris by Chip Hughes
Two surfers are lost in separate incidents half way around the world . . . In WIPEOUT when a big-wave rider vanishes under a liquid mountain at Waimea Bay on O'ahu and his life-insurance company refuses to pay, Kai Cooke is hired by the surfer's pregnant wife, Summer McDahl, to prove he's dead. Did Corky McDahl expire in the boiling soup or pull off the most daring skip-trace ever? Finding the answer leads the PI on a twisted treasure hunt involving the islands' big-wave riding and drug trafficking scenes, plus the competing claims of Summer and another woman who also claims to be Corky's wife. In HANGING TEN IN PARIS Kai investigates the apparent suicide of surfer and study-abroad student, Ryan Song, found hanging in his room in Paris. With scant knowledge of French or France, Kai tries to piece together what happened in the City of Light, without ever leaving the islands. He interviews a half dozen students and their professor who had accompanied Ryan abroad and finds that while their stories tally, none sounds like the truth. What are they hiding? Did Ryan really hang himself, or did some dark motive among them cause his death?
Chip Hughes earned a Ph.D. in English at Indiana University in 1981 and taught courses in American literature, film, writing, and popular fiction at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. He left the university in 2008 to write full time. His non-fiction publications include Beyond The Red Pony: A Reader's Companion to Steinbeck's Complete Short Stories (1987)-translated into Japanese in 1990; John Steinbeck: A Study of the Short Fiction (1989); and numerous essays and reviews. An active member of the Private Eye Writers of America, Chip launched the Surfing Detective mystery series in 2007 with Murder on Moloka'i. The second book, Wipeout!, followed in 2007. The third, Kula, in 2011. Other titles, in various stages of development, include Murder at Volcano House, Barking Sands, and the Maui Masseuse. The series has been optioned for television. Chip lives in windward O'ahu with his wife and two retrievers. He still surfs when time allows.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780982944424 |
| ISBN 10 | 098294442X |
| Title | Wipeout! & Hanging Ten in Paris |
| Author | Chip Hughes |
| Series | Surfing Detective |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Slate Ridge Press |
| Year published | 2012-06-21 |
| Number of pages | 266 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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