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The Gentleman's Hour: A Novel by Winslow, Don is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Gentleman's Hour: A Novel about?
Boone Daniels, the most laid-back of private investigators, gathers with his surfing buddies on Pacific Beach, California as per usual. There's no surf to speak of, but the Dawn Patrol are out in force anyway...it's what they do. Having no work at the moment, and no real reason to go to the office other than to see the red ink getting redder, Boone sticks around for the second shift on the daily surfing clock - the Gentlemen's Hour, frequented by the older veteranos and successful entrepreneurs - and ends up taking on a hated matrimonial case. But that soon becomes the least of his worries.When The Sundowner, symbolic icon of the San Diego surf scene, sees a dispute between a young surfer and a member of the territorial Rockpile Crew - a dispute that ends in murder - the painful truth that violence is seeping into the surf community can no longer be ignored. So when lawyer Petra Hall, who has a thing with Boone, asks him to help the defence on that particular case, Boone knows he'll be courting outrage from the community...and from the rest of the Dawn Patrol.As his closest friendships begin to fray, and he digs deeper into the murkier side of surfing culture, Boone sees his two ca
Who reads The Gentleman's Hour: A Novel?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Winslow, Don
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780434019250
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction, Thriller
- Rating
- 4.5 / 5 (2,823 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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