Plainclothes Naked
Author(s): Jerry Stahl
In a wildly careening plot that can only be described as crack noir, two pipeheads accidentally steal a photo of George W. Bush's presidential package and decide to blackmail the Republican Party. Before the crack-crazed thieves can follow through, however, gorgeous, whip-smart Nurse Tina, who's just offed her husband with a bowl of Drano-laced Lucky Charms, absconds with the goods. When Manny Rubert, a scarred ex-junkie turned codeine-popping detective, is called in to investigate the "foamer" hubby's untimely demise, love hits him like a wrench to the head.
Soon Manny and Tina are making plans of their own for the presidential pie -- and for their future together. But the meddling police chiefs and motel room sex-change surgeons of the world just won't leave them alone. And then there are those killer crackheads, still out there and closing in....
Review(s):
“Jerry Stahl is the American hipster bard.”
“Raw and devilishly raunchy.”
“Brutally compelling...”
“Jerry Stahl’s writing will flip you--flip you for real.”
“[A] pleasantly demented police procedural for the Tarantino set.”
“Plainclothes Naked is a page-turner.”
“Bare-ass hilarious....A wonderfully sick comic masterpiece of the hard-boiled genre.”
“...the new king of black humor....Plainclothes Naked [is] a hallucinogenic potboiler.”
“[Stahl’s] brilliantly demented riffs beg to be read—or screamed—aloud.”
“Gripping and powerful.”
ISBN: 9780060933531