A Long Walk Up The Water Slide

Sometime student and detective Neal Carey would rather be finishing a dull doctoral thesis than staring down the nose of... (more)

Sometime student and detective Neal Carey would rather be finishing a dull doctoral thesis than staring down the nose of a loaded gun, but his new task 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 lady in time to testify in a rape case against the head of the Family Cable Network and America's most beloved family man. But Polly isn't cooperating, and everyone -- a former FBI agent, an obsessive-compulsive hit man, the Mafia, a porn prince, and a slew of tabloid reporters -- is on her trail. (less)