Saving Paradise - Mike Bond

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Résumé :
To tourists Hawaii is an air-conditioned tanning booth with shopping, booze, bikinis, and lots of smiling low-paid help. The real Hawaii is something else…
When a beautiful journalist drowns mysteriously off Waikiki, former Special Forces veteran Pono Hawkins, now a well-known Hawaii surfer and international surfing journalist, quickly gets embroiled in trying to solve her death. What he learns soon targets him for murder or life in prison as a cabal of powerful corporations, foreign killers and crooked politicians focuses the blame on him.
Haunted by memories of Afghanistan, and determined to protect the Hawaii he loves from dirty politics tied to huge destructive energy developments, Pono turns to Special Forces buddies and his own skills to fight his deadly enemies, trying to both save himself and track down her killers.
A national US best-seller, Saving Paradise is alive with the sights, sounds and history of Hawaii, is a rich portrait of what Pono calls the seamy side of paradise, and a relentless thriller of politics, lies, manhunts and remorseless murder.

Biographie:
Called the master of the existential thriller (BBC), one of America's best thriller writers (Culture Buzz) and one of the 21st century's most exciting authors (Washington Times), Mike Bond is the author of nine best-selling novels, a war and human rights journalist, ecologist, and award-winning poet. Based on his own experiences in many dangerous and war-torn regions of the world, his novels portray the innate hunger of the human heart for good, the intense joys of love, the terror and fury of battle, the sinister conspiracies of dictators, corporations and politicians, and the beauty of the vanishing natural world.