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By Peter Dixon

At nineteen he's a fugitive. At twenty-one he stands one of the athletes of the realm ready to compete for a gold medal within the 1932 la Olympics. His identify is wintry weather Wolf, and he's the son of an Irish-Canadian father and an Indian mom. by means of historical past, he's Lord of the ocean, and his totem is the Orca, the Killer Whale – strongest of all sea creatures.
From the instant his fishing boat sinks off the California coast, iciness is thrust into the realm of athletes and picture stars. William Randolph Hearst and Marion Davies provide him shelter of their grand citadel at San Simeon, introducing him to humans of strength and wealth. Johnny Weissmuller and Buster Crabbe aid him to strengthen the force helpful for festival. Alex Jaeckel, the son of a most sensible Hollywood manufacturer, deals him friendship and encouragement to stick to his dream. And Roxy Selmanoff, a tender Russian refugee operating as a movie editor, deals him love.
jointly iciness and Roxy search happiness, yet their separate riding ambitions—his to win a gold medal within the Olympics, hers to be Hollywood’s first girl movie director—come among their emotions for every other.
simply as Winter’s dream turns out inside his snatch, a mystery from his previous surfaces and threatens to maintain him out of Olympic competition.
within the Olympian, Peter L. Dixon skillfully depicts the ambience of la within the early Nineteen Thirties, with its glamorous Hollywood stars, its Malibu motion picture colony, and its Olympic village. He weaves a singular choked with romance and experience, yet extra considerably, he creates a really memorable personality. wintry weather Wolf will stay with the reader lengthy after the final web page is turned.

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