Neal Carey Mysteries
6 total works
Graduate student Neal Carey's three-year confinement in a Chinese monastery is finally over -- but his troubles are just beginning. The elusive financial benefactors who have bought his freedom expect a return on their investment. They want him to find Cody McCall, a two-year-old boy recently abducted by his father in a bitter Hollywood custody battle -- a task that will propel Neal from the glittering Hollywood hills to the remote wilds of Nevada.
Edgar and Shamus Award-nominee Don Winslow combines breathless suspense, zany wit, and whiplash action in his latest novel featuring grad student/private eye Neal Carey. Now Neal's assigned to escort monkeyish octogenarian Natty Silver home from Las Vegas to Palm Springs. Natty, once a burlesque top banana, has a non-stop barrage of corny jokes, an eye for an aging cocktail waitress, and a chronic disappearing act. When Neal catches up with him, he can see why Natty doesn't want to go home. Sole witness to a crime, he's now the quarry of hard-faced suits, a fascist con artist, and a career-track assassin. And bodyguard Neal - scorching through the trackless desert at 80 mph, brooding on his inner child by freezing starlight, and looking down the barrel of one gun too many - is soon dodging vultures and on the brink of a surprise watery grave.
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...
A Neal Carey Mystery Once on the trail to Buddha's Mirror, there's no turning back...Robert Pendleton is a chemical genius with a fertilizer worth a fortune to whoever controls the formula. Not surprisingly, the Bank, his notoriously exclusive financial backer, wants to keep an eye on its investment. But so does the CIA. And the Chinese government. And a few shadier organisations. So when Pendleton disappears from a conference in San Francisco, along will all of his research, Neal Carey enters the picture. Neal knows the Bank is calling in its chips in return for paying his grad school bills. He thinks this assignment will be a no-brainer - until he meets the beguiling Li Lan and touches off a deadly game of hide-and-seek that will lead him from San Francisco's Chinatown to the lawless back streets of Hong Kong, and finally into the dark heart of China. In a world where no one is what they seem, Neal must unravel the mystery of a beautiful woman and read the fabled Buddha's Mirror, a mist-shrouded lake where all secrets are revealed.
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-haired 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, 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.
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 himselfSometime student and every-reluctant detective Neal Cary would breather be finished a dull doctoral thesis than staring down the nose of a loaded gun - but his new assignment doesn't sound dangerous. All ge's got to do is pull off the ultimate makeover: 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 and America's most beloved family man. But Polly isn't cooperating and everyone - including a former FBI agent, 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 amusement park, Neal tries to escape the mob's big guns while taking a slippery walk up the world's biggest water slide.