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Title: Wicked Break: A Noah Braddock Mystery

Author: Jeff Shelby

ISBN #: 0525949542

From Booklist
Surfer-sleuth Noah Braddock, introduced in Killer Swell (2004), returns to crack another case. When a college student disappears, his brother enlists Noah's aid in finding him. What should be a fairly straightforward case gets frighteningly complex when Noah discovers the missing student has a serious interest in guns and an unsettling connection to a white-supremacist group. Is the missing man a victim or a runaway? With the traditionally witty, first-person, PI-novel narration and a collection of characters who range from entertaining (Noah's best-friend roomie, Carter) to terrifying (Mo, a large brute who beats Noah nearly to death) to alluring (Liz, Noah's police-officer ex-girlfriend), this one is a winner. David Pitt
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