{"product_id":"a-long-walk-up-the-water-slide-9781504763318","title":"A Long Walk Up the Water Slide","description":"\u003cp\u003e30th Anniversary Edition with a new introduction by the author\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNeal 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 himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSometime 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 has 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 hit man, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWinslow, Don:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDon Winslow \u003c\/strong\u003eis the author of twenty-four acclaimed, award-winning international bestsellers, including six \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestsellers (\u003cem\u003eSavages\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Kings of Cool\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Cartel\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Force\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Border\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eCity on Fire\u003c\/em\u003e). \u003cem\u003eSavages\u003c\/em\u003e was made into a feature film by three-time Oscar-winning writer-director Oliver Stone and 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 in 2023. \u003cem\u003eThe Force\u003c\/em\u003e is soon to be a major motion picture from 20th Century Studios starring Matt Damon with James Mangold directing from a Scott Frank screenplay. Additional Winslow books are currently in development at Netflix, Warner Brothers, Sony, and Working Title and he has recently written a series of acclaimed short stories for Audible narrated by four-time Oscar nominee Ed Harris.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51552692699410,"sku":"9781504763318","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5aa3fe3a-407c-4a15-82b7-ad01c7306894.jpg?v=1754898812","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-long-walk-up-the-water-slide-9781504763318","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}