"Home at last, itinerant PI Neal Carey has trouble track him down for a change in the form of a dangerously clueless femme fatale PI Neal Carey has a talent for uncovering people trying to hide, but this time he has to help his mark stay lost. After Polly Paget, a ditzy actress from Brooklyn, is assaulted by her old boss, "family friendly" TV personality Jackson Landis, a motley assortment of sleazoids, paparazzi, and psychotic assassins are out to get Paget to either talk or shut up permanently. Neal Carey must scramble to hold Polly's life, and his own, together."
"After a woman accuses a family-TV personality of rape, a gunman is hired to kill her. PI Neal Carey is assigned to protect the woman, while giving her lessons on behaving like a lady so people will believe her story. By the author of Way Down on the High Lonely."
"Les amis de la famille chargent Neal Carey de protéger Polly Padget, ex-secrétaire et maîtresse de Jack Landis, producteur et présentateur d'une émission familiale plutôt réactionnaire, qu'elle accuse de viol. Les ingrédients traditionnels du genre sont réunis dans ce roman : les affaires malhonnêtes, la mafia, le tueur, le privé alcoolique, la femme fatale, la vieille amitié qui explique tout."
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