From renowned writer Paul Theroux comes a dazzling novel following a bigwave surfer in Hawaii as he confronts ageing privilege and mortalityIt was as if in surfing he was carving his name in water invisibly joyously.Joe Sharkey knows he is passed his prime.Now in his sixties the younger surfers around the breaks on the north shore of Oahu still revere him as the oncelegendary Shark but his sponsors have moved on and Joe wonders what new future awaits him on the horizon. Uninterrupted quality time with the ocean he hopes.Life has other plans.When he accidentally hits and kills a man near Waimea while drunkdriving he fears he will never rebound. Under the direction of his stubbornly loyal girlfriend Olive he throws himself into uncovering his victims story.