In true shady, dive-bar fashion, Twilite Lounge is cash only.
On book tours around the world I seek out the worst part of town and shadiest dives.
Now, in his directorial debut, he's taking a deep dive into the shady world of underground gambling.
On site, families, backpackers and dive groups occupy the shady pitches; if you're lucky, you'll get a spot close to the rocks' edge to enjoy the views of one of the neatest little beaches in Spain.
His prose clings to the underbelly of mid-20th-century modern, a place that the era's celebrated advertising doesn't even reach — where men are men and women are cocktail waitresses; where shady characters of both sexes screech in hot rods from dive bars to no-tell motels and back again.
I mean, you're trying to get me to help you pull some shady deal and you come out swinging with "Hello Dear" before diving into the meat of your pitch?
There was fist-pumping and toothpick-grinning, accusations of diving and declarations of loyalty, while in the background shady businessmen looked on with bulging pockets.
When you're not scuba diving, fishing or wakeboarding, you can relax in a hammock on shady lawns that slope down to the water.
What plays out next involves some stolen shoes, a shady gift card, and some next-level tutelage on no chase policies all things we won't dive into but were easily understood.
Many feel the dive bar's affordability is being replaced by the more expensive businesses symbolising the gentrification of local areas: "To regulars and even just residents comforted by their somewhat shady presence, a city's dive bars are deeply entwined with a city's soul, and losing them for the sake of laptop-heavy coffee shops and nouveau-fast food chains is a shame," says Wolff-Mann.
