Feral Detective

<p><strong>Jonathan Lethem's first detective novel since <em>Motherless Brooklyn</em></strong></p><p><strong>One of America's greatest storytellers. --<em>Washington Post</em></strong></p> <p>Phoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a shabby trailer on the eastern edge of Los Angeles. She's looking for her friend's missing daughter Arabella and hires Heist to help. A laconic loner who keeps his pet opossum in a desk drawer Heist intrigues the sarcastic and garrulous Phoebe. Reluctantly he agrees to help. The unlikely pair navigate the enclaves of desert-dwelling vagabonds and find that Arabella is in serious trouble--caught in the middle of a violent standoff that only Heist mysteriously can end. Phoebe's trip to the desert was always going to be strange but it was never supposed to be dangerous. . . .</p><p>Jonathan Lethem's first detective novel since <em>Motherless Brooklyn The Feral Detective</em> is a singular achievement by one of our greatest writers.</p>