

Reports from Hell
Author: Chas Smith
Narrator: Peter Berkrot
Unabridged: 8 hr 5 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Published: 06/09/2020
Categories: Nonfiction, Travel, Adventure, Middle East
Author: Chas Smith
Narrator: Peter Berkrot
Unabridged: 8 hr 5 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Published: 06/09/2020
Categories: Nonfiction, Travel, Adventure, Middle East
Chas Smith is the author of Welcome to Paradise, Now Go to Hell, which was optioned for television by Fox 21 (Homeland and Sons of Anarchy) with producers at Television 360 (Game of Thrones) and a finalist for the PEN Center USA Award for Nonfiction.
Chas began his writing career as a foreign correspondent, penning pieces for Vice, Paper, and Blackbook, amongst others, from Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, Somalia, Azerbaijan, and Colombia, which led to a brief career as a war correspondent for Current TV.
After being kidnapped by Hezbollah during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war he transitioned to surf journalism where he was a featured writer at the brash Stab before becoming editor at large at Surfing Magazine. There he developed a reputation as the most controversial voices in the space. Matt Warshaw, author of the Encyclopedia of Surfing, calls him, "Bright and hyper-ironic." William Finnegan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Barbarian Days, says that Chas, " . . . calls it like he sees it and in surfing that's not usually the case."
Chas Smith is the co-owner of a surf website, BeachGrit.
The 1st half, about their 1st trip to Yemen is a wonderful piece of engaging writing that anyone would enjoy, as is the telling of the Lebanon kidnapping, but the second half is much poorer, boring in places and lacking the energy and entertainment of earlier…......more
It’s quiet a good light read, I have never surfed so my opinion isn’t biased but people don’t seem to like the author. The book alone is fun, but the faff around it makes the surfing scene seem full of egos and divas.......more