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Title details for A Cool Breeze on the Underground by Don Winslow - Available

A Cool Breeze on the Underground

by Don Winslow
Joe Barrett
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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 a P.I. who introduced him to the Bank, an exclusive institution with a sideline in keeping its 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 in finding Allie Chase, the rebellious teenage daughter of a prominent senator. The problem is that she's gone underground in the London punk scene. To get her back, Neal has to follow her into a violent netherworld where drugs run rampant and rage is the name of the game.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Neal Carey Mystery

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    September 3, 2009

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781481584654
      • File size: 284334 KB
      • Duration: 09:52:21

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      February 4, 1991
      This ambitious but technically unsophisticated first entry in a series features street-wise New Yorker Neal Carey, a 23-year-old graduate student of 18th-century literature. Neal is directed by Friends of the Family, a discreet, private investigation agency for which he works, to find Allie Chase, the teenage, drug-addicted daughter of a U.S. senator and presidential hopeful. Allie is somewhere in England and must be returned to the States before the Democratic Convention nine weeks away. Neal finds Allie but is forced to use his cunning to bring her home; at the same time he suspects someone from the agency is trying to kill him. Winslow guides us on a tour of punk 1976 London and introduces some colorful characters. But this first novel loses much of its punch because Winslow overloads beginning chapters with his hero's personal history rather than pacing the plot with relevant details. Neal is a distant hero whose escapades seem artificially linked.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Narrator Joe Barrett is a good choice for this solid mystery--the first in Winslow's Neal Carey series. Much of the action takes place in Britain, and Barrett juggles various UK accents while still delivering the right tone and temperament for the American protagonist and his adopted father. The plot involves a Boston Brahmin, a senator's missing daughter, Brit punks, rare books, and a few helpful lessons in stalking. ("Always watch the feet, not the face.") It's taken 13 years for this novel to find its way to audio, and there's a bit of nostalgia--this thriller is cell phone and Internet free. R.W.S. (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine

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  • English

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