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30th Anniversary Edition with a New Introduction by the AuthorNeal Carey has to keep the mob, the FBI, and a major television personality from killing his newest client, but hes tempted to do the job himself.Sometime student and everreluctant detective Neal Carey would rather be finishing a dull doctoral thesis than staring down the nose of a loaded gun, but his new assignment doesnt sound dangerous. All he has to do is pull off the ultimate makeover: turn Polly Paget, a gumchewing, foulmouthed, bighaired broad, into a perfect lady in time to testify in a rape case against Jack Landis, head of the Family Cable Network and Americas most beloved family man. But Polly isnt cooperating, and everyone (including a former FBI agent, an obsessivecompulsive hitman, the Mafia, a porn prince, and a slew of tabloid reporters) is on her trail, turning Neals simple assignment into a deadly game of duckduckgoose.In a hellish and hilarious escapade that takes him from the deserts of Nevada to the bright lights of Las Vegas and finally to a hairraising climax in a shoddily built amusement park, Neal tries to escape the mobs big guns while taking a slippery walk up the worlds biggest water slide.
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30th Anniversary Edition with a New Introduction by the AuthorNeal Carey has to keep the mob, the FBI, and a major television personality from killing his newest client, but hes tempted to do the job himself.Sometime student and everreluctant detective Neal Carey would rather be finishing a dull doctoral thesis than staring down the nose of a loaded gun, but his new assignment doesnt sound dangerous. All he has to do is pull off the ultimate makeover: turn Polly Paget, a gumchewing, foulmouthed, bighaired broad, into a perfect lady in time to testify in a rape case against Jack Landis, head of the Family Cable Network and Americas most beloved family man. But Polly isnt cooperating, and everyone (including a former FBI agent, an obsessivecompulsive hitman, the Mafia, a porn prince, and a slew of tabloid reporters) is on her trail, turning Neals simple assignment into a deadly game of duckduckgoose.In a hellish and hilarious escapade that takes him from the deserts of Nevada to the bright lights of Las Vegas and finally to a hairraising climax in a shoddily built amusement park, Neal tries to escape the mobs big guns while taking a slippery walk up the worlds biggest water slide.
