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Bezig met laden... XXX Shamusdoor Red Hammond
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Hopper Garland is good at finding lost girls. When his last target tries to taker her life upon being discovered, he begins to rethink his career as a private eye. However, a persuasive offer from a sexy woman has him back on the case, chasing a missing sixteen-year-old pregnant girl from the swampy ruins of post-Katrina New Orleans to the neon grime of Las Vegas. Along the way he'll have to contend with a rogue's gallery of henchmen, pornographers, and his own incestuous sister. After he makes a deal with a sociopathic murderer who believes he's found the secret to eternal life, Hopper will relearn that old saw: some things are better off left alone. Praise for XXX SHAMUS: "XXX Shamus is the most transgressive PI novel ever written. It's also one of the best." -Allan Guthrie, author of Two-Way Split "Okay, you tough readers. You like it so raw? Time to put up or shut up. Stick your face into the pages of XXX Shamus. Turn away before the last page and I'll kick your fucking teeth out. Take it. Take it all." -Victor Gischler, author and Marvel Comics writer "Danger. Keep your head and hands inside this ride at all times. Then wash them afterwards. Wish I woulda wrote it." -David James Keaton, author of Pig Iron "Five stars with the proviso that this is an extreme book, and definitely not for those readers of delicate sensibility." -Pearce Hansen, author of Street Raised Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Anthony Neil Smith set out to write a novel (under a pseudonym) that would test all the boundaries and break them--at least in terms of sex and violence. Actually, only the sex goes beyond what you'll find in his other books. It is raw and painful--for the characters in the novel and the reader. About a third of the way in, however, Smith's inerrant ability to draw you into the plot wins out and you'll stick it through to the end. It concerns the hunt for a pregnant 17 year old, who may or may not have been abducted or worse. All in all, the story works about about like it should. However, and this is a big however, the protagonist is such a dick (yes, that has a double meaning as he's a private investigator also) that this novel just can't be rated up there with Smith's classic novels (see my other reviews). All he (not Smith--I'm talking about the protagonist, Hopper) has to do is walk into a room and women are ready to give themselves to him in whatever way hasn't already been checked off from the book's list of sex acts. So, bottom line, this is proof that Smith can do just about anything he wants to do and still end up with a pretty compelling read--but I hope he has better things to do with his time than write a sequel. (