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Welcome to Paradise, Now Go to Hell: A True Story of Violence, Corruption, and the Soul of Surfing, by Chas Smith... slightly read copy CRISP CLEAN- -interesting book, Two months every winter, when Pacific storms make landfall, swarms of mainlanders, Brazilians, Australians, Europeans flock to Oahu's paradisiacal North Shore in pursuit of some of the greatest waves on earth for surfing's Triple Crown competition... Book is surfer / former war reporter Chas Smith's semi - biographical ,wild - unflinching look at the high-stakes world of surfing on Oahu's North Shore—this influx transforms a sleepy, laid-back strip of coast.. a riveting, often humorous, account of beauty, greed, danger, into a lawless, violent, drug-addled, adrenaline-soaked mecca....finalist for the PEN Center USA Award for Nonfiction... Welcome to Paradise, Now Go to Hell: A True Story of Violence, Corruption, and the Soul of Surfing... Author Chas Smith - Publisher Harper Collins, 2013- ISBN 0062202545, 9780062202543 256 pages -… Read More