A Long Walk Up the Water Slide

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.

• Author
• Don Winslow

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 277

• Series
• Neal Carey

• Publisher
• St. Martin's Paperbacks

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-312-96617-1

• EAN
• 9780312966171

• Genres
• mystery, crime, fiction, americana, thriller, detective

• Release date
• 1998