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Surfer, Sailor, Smuggler – Tales of Living
by Melissa Burovac
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Two boys growing up together in a small California town are the best of friends. One conforms to his parents’ wishes and follows a preset path to a career; the other creates his own path, sailing the world, surfing and smuggling drugs to Hawaii. Watch their lives diverge and reconnect through the years with tales of action and adventure, brushes with the law, Mexican cartels, and lost families and friends. Do they regret their lifestyles and the consequences of their choices as they approach old age?
Based on the true stories of surfers, sailors and pirates on Kauai.
A Word from the Author
Sail around the world with “Rod,” surfing and smuggling drugs to Hawaii; based on true stories, Surfer, Smuggler, Sailor is loaded with action and adventure, Mexican cartels, brushes with the law, typhoons at sea, and friendship through the years.
Surfer, Sailor, Smuggler began as a biography of a sailor on Kauai; we would sit on his boat sipping drinks while he told me stories of his almost unbelievable life. Soon after I started writing, I realized it was still possible for him to get in legal trouble for some of his activities – that’s when the book turned into a fictionalized telling of his memoir.
(Melissa Burovac, December 2018)