* In the 1800s, Coronado Island was one of the world's great tourism hubs, thanks to the Hotel del Coronado, a Victorian confection of spires and gables that's best-known for providing the beach scenes in Some Like It Hot. * If you can't face the crowds at either San Diego's Sea World or its exemplary zoo (set in the sprawling Balboa Park), nature lovers can take a whale watching tour during migration season (Dec-April). It was a cheap and cheerful dinner, so I hope Winslow would have approved. Don Winslow is the author of twenty-one acclaimed, award-winning international bestsellers, including the New York Times bestseller and sensation The Force, the 1 international bestseller The Cartel, The Power of the Dog, Savages, and The Winter of Frankie Machine. Waves like these come only once in a generation. An hour later, with arms like spaghetti, I headed back to dry land for beer and burgers. The dawn patrol by Don Winslow, June 17, 2008, Knopf edition, Hardcover in English. An underwater earthquake near Alaska has generated a deepwater wave that will arrive in a few days. A lifeguard strolled past, like Dave the Love God, The Dawn Patrol's resident lifesaver.

Fishermen tossed lines off Crystal Pier, reminding me of Frank the Bait Guy, the protagonist in Winslow's The Winter of Frankie Machine. Splendidly, the part of the Library dedicated to Watergate, the scandal for which Nixon is notorious, is confined to a tiny corridor, near the exit.īack at Pacific Beach, I returned to the water for a final evening surf session. The former President's home, Casa Pacifica, is about an hour's north of San Diego, and crops up in Winslow's The Power of the Dog. Every morning hes out with the Dawn Patrol: four men and one woman as. Further north, in the foothills of Orange County, is the Richard Nixon Library. Buy The Dawn Patrol Paperback Book By: Don Winslow from as low as 8.45.

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