This is the true story of Ted Viscount Deerhurst the son of the Earl of Coventry and an American ballerina who dedicated his life to becoming a professional surfer. Surfing was a means of escape from England from the fraught charges of nobility from family and often from his own demons. Ted was good on the board but never made it to the very highest ranks of a sport that like most treats secondbest as nowhere at all. He kept on surfing ending up where all surfers go to live or die the paradise of Hawaii. There in search of the perfect woman he fell in love with a dancer called Lola who worked in a Honolulu nightclub. The problem with paradise as he was soon to discover is that gangsters always get there first. Lola already had a serious boyfriend a man who went by the name of Pit Bull. Ted was given fair warning to stay away. But he had a besetting sin for which he paid the heaviest price He never knew when to give up. Surf Sweat and Tears takes us into the world of global surfing revealing a dark side beneath the dazzling sun and creamcrested waves. Here is surf noir at its most compelling a dystopian tale of one mans obsessions wiped out in a grisly true crime.