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While Drowning in the Desert
Don Winslow
其他書名
A Neal Carey Mystery
出版St. Martin's Press, 1996
主題Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General
ISBN03121444669780312144463
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=i_3yPQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Neal Carey is just a few months shy of his long-delayed master's degree, as well as his marriage to longtime love Karen Hawley, when the phone rings. It can only be "Dad", a.k.a. Joe Graham, Neal's erstwhile father figure and boss, with an errand: Neal just has to pop down to Las Vegas, pick up a confused old man, and take him home to Palm Springs. But nothing in Neal's life can be simple. The old man turns out to be Natty Silver, a forgotten star of burlesque, nightclubs, and beach movies, a Hollywood relic who can find eighty-six ways to annoy Neal in a virtually nonstop recitation of ancient jokes. The only thing Natty fails to tell Neal is that he has witnessed a crime, and now a ruthless pair of con artists are trying to kill him. Add to this mix a faded lounge singer ("the Great Hope White"), a slightly berserk insurance attorney, and the fact that Karen wants to get pregnant - now - and it's small wonder that Neal feels as if he's drowning in the desert.