{"product_id":"while-drowning-in-the-desert-9798200739011","title":"While Drowning in the Desert","description":"\u003cp\u003e30th Anniversary Edition with a new introduction by the author\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShamus 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen 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.\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\u003ewas 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 \u003cem\u003eFX \u003c\/em\u003ein 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":50620858204434,"sku":"9798200739011","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ad5faf2a-48da-42cf-bdac-b066af6874d2.jpg?v=1754897641","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/while-drowning-in-the-desert-9798200739011","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}