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Surf, Sweat and Tears: The Epic Life and Mysterious Death of Edward George William Omar Deerhurst
Surf, Sweat and Tears: The Epic Life and Mysterious Death of Edward George William Omar Deerhurst
Surf, Sweat and Tears: The Epic Life and Mysterious Death of Edward George William Omar Deerhurst
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Surf, Sweat and Tears: The Epic Life and Mysterious Death of Edward George William Omar Deerhurst

By Andy Martin

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This is the true story of Ted, Viscount Deerhurst, the son of the Earl of Coventry and an American ballerina who dedicated his life to becoming a professional surfer. Surfing was a means of escape, from England, from the fraught charges of nobility, from family, and, often, from his own demons. Ted was good on the board, but never made it to the very highest ranks of a sport that, like most, treats second-best as nowhere at all. He kept on surfing, ending up where all surfers go to live or die, the paradise of Hawaii. There, in search of the “perfect woman,” he fell in love with a dancer called Lola, who worked in a Honolulu nightclub. The problem with paradise, as he was soon to discover, is that gangsters always get there first. Lola already had a serious boyfriend, a man who went by the name of Pit Bull. Ted was given fair warning to stay away. But he had a besetting sin, for which he paid the heaviest price: He never knew when to give up.

Surf, Sweat and Tears takes us into the world of global surfing, revealing a dark side beneath the dazzling sun and cream-crested waves. Here is surf noir at its most compelling, a dystopian tale of one man’s obsessions, wiped out in a grisly true crime.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherOR Books
Release dateMay 7, 2020
ISBN9781682192337
Surf, Sweat and Tears: The Epic Life and Mysterious Death of Edward George William Omar Deerhurst
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Andy Martin

Andy Martin was born in London and teaches in Cambridge and New York. He learned to surf on the west coast of Australia. He is the author of Walking On Water, and has written about God, Napoleon and Brigitte Bardot and reported on surfing for the Independent and The Times.

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