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    While Drowning in the Desert
    While Drowning in the Desert
    While Drowning in the Desert
    Audiobook3 hours

    While Drowning in the Desert

    Written by Don Winslow

    Narrated by Joe Barrett

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    30th Anniversary Edition with a new introduction by the author

    Shamus Award winner and Edgar 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 is assigned to escort monkeyish octogenarian Natty Silver home from Las Vegas to Palm Springs. Natty, once a burlesque top banana, has a nonstop 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 eighty miles per hour, 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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBlackstone Publishing
    Release dateDec 5, 2023
    ISBN9798200706716
    While Drowning in the Desert
    Author

    Don Winslow

    Don Winslow is the author of twenty-five acclaimed, award-winning international bestsellers, including eight New York Times bestsellers (Savages, The Kings of Cool, The Cartel, The Force, The Border, City on Fire, City of Dreams and City in Ruins). Savages was made into a feature film by three-time Oscar-winning writer-director Oliver Stone from a screenplay by Shane Salerno, Winslow and Stone. Winslow's epic Cartel trilogy has been adapted for TV and will appear as a weekly series on FX. Additional Winslow books are currently in development at Paramount (The Winter of Frankie Machine), Netflix (Boone Daniels), Warner Brothers (Satori), Sony (City on Fire, City of Dreams, City in Ruins) and Working Title (“Crime 101”) and he has recently written a series of acclaimed and award-winning short stories for Audible narrated by four-time Oscar nominee Ed Harris. A former investigator, anti-terrorist trainer and trial consultant, Winslow has announced that City in Ruins will be his final novel.

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    • 4/5
      I've been on a mystery kick lately, and I've discovered some great books and authors I didn't previously know. This is another one of those, with a smart protagonist, fun and intriguing plot, and such a super supporting character I'd read it again just for him. :) Fast-paced and engaging, great writing--highly recommended!
    • 4/5
      "Drowning In The Desert" is probably the least popular of Winslow's Neal Carey series. While not groundbreaking or earth-shattering like "The Dawn Patrol" or "The Kings of Cool," Desert is a fine thriller read. It teams Carey up with the last of the Borscht Belt comedians and is often more humorous than thriller. There are points where the comedian's endless monologue drives you crazy, but, as noted, it is an enjoyable read - just not the depth of the early Neal Carey books
    • 5/5
      This was a fun, quick read! Basically, it has a "Midnight Run" feel to it - a private detective has to get a man somewhere the man doesn't want to go! It even has the same airport scene! However, in this case, the shamus has to get an 80 something year old Jewish burlesque comedian out of Las Vegas, while some Nazi fellow tries to stop him! Through in a fertile fiancé, a Vegas show girl, and a bumbling Arab guy, and you've got quite the tale! It's actually pretty funny, even if some of the jokes are old and corny! And Chapter 10, in which lawyers exchange letters, is super funny! I'd definitely be interested in reading the rest of the "Neal Carey" mysteries! Great last line- "Drowning in the desert, you just tread water."