Way Down on the High Lonely

The Neal Carey Mysteries, Book 3

De: Don Winslow

Narrado por: Joe Barrett

From domestic war to barroom brawls, grad-student-turned-PI Neal Carey’s got more than studying on his plate.

Neal’s three-year confinement in a Chinese monastery is finally over—but his troubles are just beginning. The elusive financial benefactors who have bought his freedom expect a return on their investment. They want him to find Cody McCall, a two-year-old boy recently abducted by his father in a bitter Hollywood custody battle—a task that will propel Neal from the glittering Hollywood hills to the remote wilds of Nevada.

To find Cody, Neal has to turn outlaw in a land of two-bit casinos and roadside cathouses to infiltrate a vicious white supremacist group spouting hatred and dealing in terror. But the deeper undercover he goes, the deadlier the game becomes. Now Neal must force a showdown with the group’s crazed leader and find Cody before the missing toddler ends up lost in a world of unspeakable evil.

Crack another case with Neal Carey.©1993 Don Winslow (P)2011 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Reseñas de la Crítica

“Splendid.” (New York Times Book Review)

"Winslow deftly balances hard-edged action with characters to really care about, all described in swift, sharp prose." (Publishers Weekly)

"Neal's latest adventure is full of entertaining derring-do." (Kirkus Reviews)

I love this series...

I love the high highs and the low lows. I love the grit and the grins. I love the characters and the narration. This is pure entertainment and fascinating material. Winslow does due diligence when it comes to his homework, and it pays off in spades. Highly recommend all his books in this series, but be forewarned: this is graphic and violent stuff.

Violent and gruesome

After listening to the delightful and hilarious While Drowning in the Desert, we had good expectations for another Don Winslow/Joe Barrett match up. Unfortunately, this one should have had warning labels for torture and gruesome murder. We were not expecting the explicit recounting of really terrible torture scenes and viciousness of a group of neo-Nazi types. Maybe it would have been different if we had been prepared. So this is your warning. Otherwise, Winslow sucks you in deeper and deeper into a missing child case, a toddler abducted by the non-custodial parent. Neal Carey, reluctant private investigator, goes deep undercover to try to locate and safely extract the toddler. He meets up with interesting characters along the way, both decent and evil, and of course Joe Graham, his foster father, plays a pivotal role. I love that crusty guy! There’s lots of action, shoot outs, ambushes, captivity, torture, murder, sabotage, and even some romance. Winslow sure knows how to tell a story. This one went on a bit too long for my tastes, and I was ready for the fight scenes to finally conclude so the book could end. I’m giving it 3* for the story but 5* for the very talented Joe Barrett narration.

Ya gotta love Don Winslow

Great book. Great characters. Don Winslow delivers.
Great storyline Neal is a interesting guy
Boom

Don Winslow is just plane awesome

Neal Carrey is one of my favorite series …this third book was excellent. I’m on to book 4 and five now before I read Winslow’s big epic novel that he just released (city on fire)

Way down on the high lonely will not disappoint you …get it

a good story about a crazy dangerous zealot

this is a good book with vicious characters woried about the end of times who have a lot of hatred that drives then to kill. it is full of adventure and auspense.

I love Don Winslow’s books

The story starts slow but by the end you can’t put it down or you can’t stop listening. And the characters though they’re a bit fairytale are fun and somewhat realistic. I highly recommend this series

Who Knew this would be so relevant …

Almost 20 years later and this story sounds so fresh.
Don Winslow is tops on my favorite story teller list.
Joe Barrett does a super job narrating . He is easy and enjoyable to listen to.

What an Adventure

The characters in this series are great. The narrator is fantastic. I am going to start the next book in the series.

Great plot!

I enjoyed the performance and the theme of antisemitism and white supremecy and how it gets foiled by the heros.

I like the series, and that kept me reading

so this is the third installment. the first was definitely my favorite, the second was at times an effort to get through, but it paid off in the end. the third was good, bad, sort of predictable (maybe more expected), and typical. But if you are like me and have a thousand or so books under your belt, there are times when you read to read and when you read because you love to read.
the writing is good, the character development and descriptions make them come to life. I am no expert but I would say that is what separates the good authors from the bad. the bad make descriptors feel like 7 layered dip - globs upon globs…the good incorporate the details into the narrative with a richness it’s like your moms secret ingredient that makes her cooking taste better than anyone else’s - you can’t figure out what it is, but when it is left out - your really noticeable it.