The Dawn Patrol by Don Winslow

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THE DAWN patrol are a group of surfers who meet each morning off Pacific Beach in southern California. There's Boone Daniels, a full-time dude and part-time private investigator; High Tide, a mountainous Samoan; Dave the Love God, a seriously studly lifeguard; Johnny Banzai, a San Diego detective; and Sunny, a blonde babe who is the best surfer of them all — and Boone's former squeeze. She is none too happy when she sees him falling for an uptight British lawyer called Petra, who hires him to find a missing stripper who was due to testify against the sleazeball owner of a titty-bar in an arson case. All of them become involved in a case that begins with a murder and ends with the exposure of truly ruthless depravity.

Don Winslow seems to be letting his hair down after his previous novel, the taut and breakneck The Winter of Frankie Machine (currently being made into a film by Michael Mann starring Robert De Niro). There's an infectious sense of the author having a good time — as in Carl Hiaasen's early work — and it's no mean achievement to make the world of surfing fascinating to confirmed landlubbers. However, the tone gradually darkens and slowly builds to a moving, lethal climax that will take your breath away.