Neal is a distant hero whose escapades seem artificially linked. Don Winslow is the author of the Edgar-nominated A Cool Breeze on the Underground, The Trail to Buddha's Mirror, Way Down on the High Lonely, While Drowning in the Desert, and The Death and. 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. Winslow guides us on a tour of punk 1976 London and introduces some colorful characters. 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. Allie is somewhere in England and must be returned to the States before the Democratic Convention nine weeks away. 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. 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.
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