A review by lauraellis
A Cool Breeze on the Underground by Don Winslow

4.0

As a mystery fan, I particularly enjoy authors who do something new or different, a fresh voice, and this definitely one.  The premise is great:  a pickpocket trained up to be a private investigator for a bank—who is now in grad school and wants nothing more than to be an English professor.  He is sent to England to retrieve the 17-year-old runaway daughter of a possible vice-president candidate (this is sup. 1976)—but first he has to find her, and once does things are, of course, not nearly as simple as he was originally told.