The Feral Detective A Novel Author:Jonathan Lethem Jonathan Lethem?s first detective novel since Motherless Brooklyn?One of America?s greatest storytellers.? ?Washington PostPhoebe 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 i... more »n 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. . . .Jonathan Lethem?s first detective novel since Motherless Brooklyn, The Feral Detective is a singular achievement by one of our greatest writers.« less