A young American journalist, ten years later, comes to her hometown, where she unexpectedly meets her first, still childhood, love - a strong-willed, handsome man, in the recent past a tennis star, forced to leave the sport after a serious injury. Their newly rekindled feeling even has to go through the test of fire. The detective plot of the novel introduces acuity of sensations and a piquant aroma of risk into the narrative. However, the author happily dispenses with the “sea of blood” and “mountain of corpses”, focusing on the life of a great feeling, on the pure experiences of two loving hearts. So, Californian beaches, warm surf waves, beautiful, young, rich men passionately loving each other and a woman...