Richard M. (algernon99) - , reviewed on 3/11/2008 + 418 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 2

Whew; when they named this line of books Hard Case Crime, they weren't kidding! (Well, actually, a number of the books aren't all that hard boiled, but this is...my goodness...is REALLY thoroughly, completely, hard boiled to death.)

We meet Angel Dare, the aging but still beautiful retired porn star, who runs a business representing ...er... models. She's a veteran of the business who wasn't ruined by it.

A series of events take place that have her shot and left for dead in a car trunk. Having not died after all, she finds this kind of treatment to be somewhat irritating, so she vows to bring the dastardly villains to justice--in her own way. (That means she hopes to personally kill them.)

The story moves on quickly and efficiently, with the spare, lean prose we expect in our hard-boiled stories. Things happen. People are shot, people die, people are buried out in the desert, and so on and so on.

I liked the book, but by the end, I'd been boiled just a bit beyond my normal tolerance for that sort of thing. The harsh realities (assuming that they are, in fact, real) of the porn business are not much fun to know.

So consider yourself warned. If you like hard-boiled stuff, have a little curiosity about the seamier side of the porn business, and can stomach cold-blooded killing right and left, you'll probably like this. It's written about as well as something like this can be written. If, however, the disgusting soft underbelly of the triple-x world is likely to turn you all squeamish, you'd better keep your distance.

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