It’s the summer of 2020 and the world is turned upside down. COVID lockdowns, criminality, and riots are the new norm, civil rights trampled, and Colton Candide’s Los Angeles apartment has become his personal dungeon. He needs to get back to work, or fishing, surfing, and sailing, anything to escape this toxic existence and isolation threating to drive him crazy. And there is an escape. Colton just can’t see it. All will come clear in a matter of months however, as the COVID pandemic, lockdowns, bankruptcy, riots, woke doxers, an indictment, and real and perceived ailments, aliens, and zombies all collude and conspire to torture and kill Colton…and make him a killer, a killer who finally gets his mind right and cures himself. SURFING With SHARKS is the story of our times, its basic theme – a struggle against madness – timeless. Colton Candide is uniquely contemporary, his descent not only the result of his own flaws but realities within an unreal world that has gone insane. Colton may indeed cure himself, yet we must wonder if madness itself isn’t the cure.