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Welcome to Paradise, Now Go to Hell: A True Story of Violence, Corruption, and the Soul of Surfing Paperback - 2014

by Chas Smith

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A finalist for the PEN Center USA Award for Nonfiction

For two months every winter, when Pacific storms make landfall, Oahu's paradisical North Shore turns into a fiery hell. Its population more than triples as mainlanders, Brazilians, Australians, and Europeans transform the normally sleepy shore into a lawless, violent, drug-addled, and adrenaline-soaked mecca where fearless men paddle into thirty-foot waves breaking over a razor-sharp reef. And when the sun goes down, the true danger comes out as drug money, fights, murder, and extortion rule the surfing underworld. The North Shore during winter is downright dangerous but also exhilarating, and Chas Smith paints a true picture of what it feels like to be in the middle of it all. Welcome to Paradise, Now Go to Hell is both a breathtaking and wildly funny tale of beauty, wickedness, and the unyielding allure of ocean waves in all their glory.

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  • Title Welcome to Paradise, Now Go to Hell: A True Story of Violence, Corruption, and the Soul of Surfing
  • Author Chas Smith
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher It Books
  • Date 2014-07-08
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780062202536 / 0062202537
  • Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.3 x 0.7 in (20.32 x 13.46 x 1.78 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Western U.S.
  • Dewey Decimal Code 797.32

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