All for a Few Perfect Waves

<p>For twenty years Miki Da Cat Dora was the king of Malibu surfers--a dashing enigmatic rebel who dominated the waves ruled his peers' imaginations and who still inspires the fantasies of wannabes to this day. And yet Dora railed against surfing's sudden post-<em>Gidget</em> popularity and the overcrowding of his once empty waves even after this avid sportsman iconoclast and scammer of wide repute ran afoul of the law and led the FBI on a remarkable seven-year chase around the globe in 1974. The <em>New York Times</em> named him the most renegade spirit the sport has yet to produce and <em>Vanity Fair</em> called him a dark prince of the beach. To fully capture Dora's never-before-told story David Rensin spent four years interviewing hundreds of Dora's friends enemies family members lovers and fellow surfers to uncover the untold truth about surfing's most outrageous practitioner charismatic antihero committed loner and enduring mystery.</p>