A Cool Breeze on the Underground by Don Winslow

A Cool Breeze on the Underground (Neal Carey Mysteries)

by Don Winslow

The first of Don Winslow's cult Neal Carey crime novels. Neal Carey is not your usual private eye. A graduate student at Columbia University, he grew up on the streets of New York, usually on the wrong side of the law. Then he met Joe Graham, a one-armed P.I. who introduced him to the Bank, an exclusive New England institution with a sideline in keeping it's wealthy clients happy and out of trouble. They pay Neal's college tuition, and Neal gets an education that can't be found in any textbook - from learning how to trail a suspect to mastering the proper way to search a room. Now it's payback time. The Bank wants Neal to put his skills to work finding Allie Chase, the rebellious teenage daughter of a prominent senator. The problem: Allie has gone underground in London, and to get her back, Neal has to follow her into the punk scene, a violent nether world where drugs run rampant and rage is the name of the game. Up against punk junkies, Neal has his work cut out for him to save Allie - and get above ground for good...

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Empecé esta novela para quitarme el mono de las dos novelas del detective surfero, Boone Daniels, que tiene Winslow (1 y 2).
La serie de Neal Carey es con la que se estrenó Winslow como escritor. Se notan algunos detalles como una fijación un poco obsesiva con que cada rasgo de nuestro personaje venga explicado por una experiencia traumática de su infancia, y cosas que no están mal pero te hacen preguntarte por qué el autor vuela tanto en círculos sobre un mismo punto.
La historia está bien, es entretenida, está muy bien construida (cada giro del guión da la sensación de ser inevitable, tenía que pasar como ha pasado) y uno les coge cariño a los personajes, casi incluidos los malos (no todos, claro. Hay un monstruo en la novela).
No me ha enganchado tanto como las de Boone Daniels pero me ha gustado. Hay unas cuantas más, además. Recomendable.

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