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A Long Walk Up the Water Slide (A Neal Carey Mystery) by Don Winslow
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A Long Walk Up the Water Slide (A Neal Carey Mystery)

by Don Winslow

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#4 in the series. "Neal Carey would rather finish his dull doctoral thesis, but his new assignment from The Bank doesn't sound dangerous. He's got to turn Polly Paget, a gum-chewing foul-mouthed big-haired broad into a perfect lady in time to testify in a rape case against Jack Landis, head of the Family Cable Network. But Polly isn't cooperating, and everyone is on her trail, including a former FBI agent, an obsessive-compulsive hitman, the Mafia, a porn prince, and a slew of tabloid reporters." - St. Martin's jacket notes. The humour is better here, but this is a strange series, noir and hard for me to like. ( )
tripleblessings | Feb 2, 2007 |  
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"Today, everyone takes part in public executions through the newspapers." --Elias Canetti, Masse und Macht
"Motive? There are only three motives: greed, lust, and greed." --Anonymous witness
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To Buddy
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He never should have smelled the coffee.
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0312966172, Mass Market Paperback)

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.

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