num_pages: 304
description: People go to Huntington Beach in search of the endless parties, the ultimate highs and the perfect waves. Ike Tucker has come to look for his missing sister and for the three men who may have murdered her. In that place of gilded surfers and sun-bleached blondes, Ike's search takes him on a journey through a twisted world of crazed Vietnam vets, sadistic surfers, drug dealers, and mysterious seducers. Ike looks into the shadows and finds parties that drift towards pointless violence, joyless vacations and highs you might never come down from ... and a sea of old hatreds and dreams gone bad. And if he's not careful, his is a journey from which he will never return.
language: English
title: Tapping the Source
titlecomplete: Tapping the Source
characters: Janet Adams, Ike Tucker, Ellen Tucker, Milo Trax, Preston Marsh, Mrs. Hazel Adams, Uncle Gordon Tucker, Hound Adams, Terry Jacobs, Frank Baker
genres: Sports, Crime, Audiobook, Novels, Adventure, Thriller, Noir, Mystery Thriller, Fiction, Mystery
ratings_count: 2392
awards: awardedAt: 441792000000
name: California Book Award
category: First Fiction (Silver), awardedAt: 441792000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: First Work of Fiction
publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press