NEW YORK — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is working on his memoirs, to be published in the spring 2008 by G.P. Putnam’s Sons.

Financial terms were not disclosed; the book, currently untitled, will be co-authored by Esquire Executive Editor Mark Warren.

“Sometimes the long journey from the little town in the Nevada desert called Searchlight to Washington, D.C., seems strange, even to me,” Reid, 67, said in a statement released Wednesday by his publisher.

“But the hard lessons I learned in that town guide me every day as we now confront the great crises of today — issues of war and peace and of essential American values and of the future of the planet. That’s what this book will be about.”

Reid, currently serving his fourth term, became minority leader after the 2004 elections and then majority leader after the 2006 campaign, when the Democrats took control.

According to Putnam,  Reid’s book “will intertwine his own story, particularly his early life of abject poverty in Searchlight, Nev., ‘a place that boasted of 13 brothels and no churches,’ with the cautionary tale of contemporary Washington, D.C.”