ABOUT THE BOOK

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.

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

"Kem Nunn is one of a rare breed, a novelist who knows how to plot and tell a story. There is amazing energy here" - Elmore Leonard

"Forceful and gripping..in the same league as the best of Chandler and James Crumley. The all-time great surfing novel" - Robert Stone

"Tense and driven with a sense of the apocalypse around the corner." - Washington Post

"What Hemingway's Nick Adams did for fishing, Kem Nunn does for surfing. Through the sensibility of its hero and the sensitivity of its author, Tapping the Source puts you there and makes you understand." - Saturday Review

"Hammett, Chandler, James Cain and Ross MacDonald, Kem Nunn has surpassed them all" - L.A.Times

"The Dogs of Winter is the greatest novel ever written about surfing. The second best is Nunn's Tapping the Source. The third best is whatever Nunn writes next" - Newsweek

ESSENTIAL TRIVIA

Tapping the Source was nominated for the American Book Award's Best First Fiction.