While Drowning in the Desert: A Neal Carey Mystery

By Don Winslow

Book Overview

Just a few months shy of his long-delayed master's degree and his wedding to longtime love Karen Hawley, Neal Carey gets a call from Dad, Joe Graham, his mentor and boss. Joe wants Neal to pop down to Las Vegas, pick up a confused old man, and take him home to Palm Springs. What Neal doesn't know is that the old man witnessed arson, and the two perpetrators are trying to kill him.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312144466
• ISBN13: 9780312144463
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

this book is one you can't put down

When I first received this book from my fiance he told me I would have to read this. He knows that I am not much of a reader, but I told him I would. As soon as I started reading the book, every time I went to take a break something would come up. I just couldn't find myself to put this book down until I finished reading it. It was a very interesting and funny book.

While Drowning in the Desert by Don Winslow

Funny doesn't begin to describe this Neal Carey entry.Hysterically funny. Laugh-out-loud till you cry funny.I almost fell out of bed while reading this I was laughing so hard funny.And boy was I embarassed, since it was one in the morning and my neighbors have big ears.Do yourselves a favor. READ THIS BOOK. But do it with care, after all, you wouldn't want to fracture your funny bone.

Funny,funny,funny

Here a Neal Carey story that is more fun then the previous ones.Not so suspencefull or mysterious ,but great fun to absorbe.More,where this came from-the world around us is suspencefull enough-may there be a laugh or two...

Buddy Hackett meets Fletch

The Neal Carey series started out as Ross MacDonald (Cool Breeze...) then became Robert Crais (Way Down on the...) continued on as Carl Hiaasen ( A Long Walk...) and now this; pure Laurence Shames slapstick.Another reviewer has noted that you learn nothing from this book,and that is true ( except maybe a few old vaudeville jokes ) but if you want learning, read a textbook, if you want to relax and have a few laughs, read this.