A Long Walk Up the Water Slide: A Neal Carey Mystery

By Don Winslow

Book Overview

Neal Carey has to keep the mob, the FBI, and a major television personality from killing his newest client-- but he's tempted to do the job himself. Sometime student and ever-reluctant detective Neal Carey would rather be finishing a dull doctoral thesis than staring down the nose of a loaded gun-- but his new assignment doesn't sound dangerous. All he's got to do is pull off the ultimate makeover: turn Polly Paget-- a gum-chewing, foul-mouthed, big-haried broad-- into a perfect lady in time to testify in a rape case against Jack Landis, head of the Family Cable Network and America's most beloved family man. But Polly isn't cooperating, and everyone-- including a former FBI agent, and an obsessive-compulsive hitman, the Mafia, a porn prince, and a slew of tabloid reporters-- is on her trail turning Neal's "simple" assignment into a deadly game of duck-duck-goose. In a hellish and hilarious escapade that takes him from the deserts of Nevada to the bright lights of Las Vegas, and finally to a hair-raising climax in a shoddily built amusment park, Neal tries to escape the mob's big guns while taking a slippery walk up the world's biggest water slide.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312113897
• ISBN13: 9780312113896
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Length: 277 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.3" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Laugh out loud funny

I didn't want to quit reading because it made me laugh out loud, a lot and I had to find out what happened. The plots, counter plots, and sub-plots wove a spider web across the U.S. from New York to the Nevada boondocks to San Antonio's River Walk to New Orleans and back to Las Vegas. The only thing I was sure of from the beginning was the Mob's most fearsome hitman had met his match in Polly, Candy, and Karen and was doomed to go down hard.