Looking back after so many years, I’m surprised it didn’t happen sooner than it did. Tom always was a guy full of big ideas.
He’d had big ideas before, but never one that would cause so much trouble.
It came upon him out of nowhere, striking suddenly, the way a chubasco strikes in the Sea of Cortez: He stopped, clapped his hands together, and turned so he stood facing me.
“You know what I’m going to do?” he cried. “I’m going to climb to the top of that smokestack!”
“You don’t mean the smokestack on top of the old power plant, do you?” I asked.
“That’s the one,” he affirmed, grinning excitedly and wagging“That’s the one,” he affirmed, grinning excitedly and wagging his big head back and forth. “I’m going to climb all the way to the top and shout so loud they’ll be able to hear me over in Hawaii!”
“You’re crazy,” I said, giving him my-you-can’t-really-mean-that-look, the one I reserved for moments when he came up with his most outlandish ideas. “I always knew it. Now I’ve got proof.”
Red Tide Description:
When the truth is chasing you, how far can you run?
The lives of surfing buddies Pete and Tom are changed forever when they venture into an abandoned power plant one fateful night in 1968. Instead of finding adventure, they find murder.
Fearing of revealing the truth, their lives are soon spinning out of control as they seek to escape from their terrible secret in surfing, drugs, and alcohol. Hoping to run away, they embark on an odyssey that will take them from their small Southern California beach town all the way to Cabo San Lucas at the end of the Baja Peninsula. Along the way they meet Anjanette, a beautiful young woman with a dubious past who teaches them the true meaning of life and friendship.
Red Tide is a tale of people seeking the truth and finding redemption.
