Set amid the spontaneous, uninhibited surf culture of Malibu and Mexico in the late 1970s, this riveting memoir, written in crisp Hemingwayesque prose, recalls Ollestad's childhood and the magnetic man whose determination and love infuriated and inspired him--and ultimately saved his life.

"The inside story of Steven Spielberg's career saving relationship in his partnership with Warner Bros. and their responsibility for the tragic deaths on a movie set where actor Vic Morrow and two young children were killed in a violent helicopter crash where nobody was held accountable for the gross negligence that led to the grisly decapitations that happened on the Warner Bros. Twilight Zone movie set that night. In what some may consider an obstruction...