Kem Nunn

Finalista del National Book Award. Un clásico de la novela negra que nos sumerge en el corazón de una ciudad costera del sur de California. La mayoría de la gente que llega a Huntington Beach –la mec

From the LA Times Book Prize-winning author comes a suspenseful and mind-bending novel about Eldon Chance, a forensic neuropsychiatrist at the end of his rope - now a Hulu TV series starring Hugh Laurie and Gretchen Moi.Chance is a dark story about psychiatric mystery, sexual obsession, fractured identities, and terrifyingly realistic violence; a tale told amid the back streets of Californias Bay Area, far from the cleansing breezes of the ocean.Dr. Eldon Chance, a neuropsychiatrist, is a man primed for spectacular ruin. Into his blighted life walks Jaclyn Blackstone, the abused, attractive wife of an Oakland homicide detective seemingly suffering from a dissociative identity disorder. In time, Chance will fall into bed with her; or is it her alter ego, the voracious and volatile Jackie Black? The not-so-good doctor, despite his training, isnt quite sure and soon finds himself up against her husband, Raymond, a formidable and dangerous adversary.Meanwhile, Chance also meets a young man named D, a self-styled, streetwise philosopher skilled in the art of the blade. Around this trio of unique and dangerous individuals, long-guarded secrets begin to unravel, obsessions grow, and the doctors carefully arranged life comes to the brink of implosion.Chance is a twisted, harrowing, and impossible-to-put-down head trip through the funhouse of fate; its not pretty, its not sweet, but it is disturbing and unforgettable.

People came to Huntington Beach in search of the endless party, the ultimate high and the perfect wave. Ike Tucker came to look for his sister and for the three men who may have murdered her. In that place of gilded surfers and sun-bleached blondes, Ike looked into the shadows and found parties that drifted towards pointless violence, joyless violations and highs you might never come down from... and a sea of old hatreds and dreams gone bad.

Out of the blue Jack Fletcher, a former hot-shot surf photographer now surviving on hack work, cheap beer and muscle relaxants, gets a call from the surfing magazine he worked for back in his glory days. Assigned to photograph Drew Harmon surfing the remote reef known as Heart Attacks, the photographer cant quite believe his luck: both the surfer and the wave are the stuff of legend, and mean a ticket back into the big time.With two young surf punks in tow, Fletcher heads off for the grim wilderness of Northern California, and the Indian territory where Harmon now lives with his half-mad wife Kendra, who roams the woods at night wearing the clothes of a murdered girl. This is not what Jack had expected, and things get worse.To reach the fabled Heart Attacks and ride the winter waves Harmon, Fletcher and the punks must cross the tract of blasted headland known to the local Hupa, Yurok and Tolowan Indians as The Devils Hoof. When a child dies in an accident, the white men are blamed; the Indians, swearing vengeance, kidnap and brutalise Kendra, then set off to kill the surfers.In this desolate wasteland the search for the perfect wave becomes a quest for survival, as events lead inevitably to their final, tragic climax.

En poussant la porte d''une maison dans un quartier déglingué de Pomona, Earl Dean, représentant en aspirateurs, déboule en plein milieu d''une veillée funèbre. Le cadavre d''un homme poignardé baign

Finalista del National Book Award. Un clásico de la novela negra que nos sumerge en el corazón de una ciudad costera del sur de California.La mayoría de la gente que llega a Huntington Beach –la meca