{"product_id":"9780060933531","title":"Plainclothes Naked","description":"\u003cstrong\u003ePlainclothes Naked\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Jerry Stahl\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a wildly careening plot that can only be described as \u003cem\u003ecrack noir,\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSoon 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.... \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“Jerry Stahl is the American hipster bard.”\u003cbr\u003e“Raw and devilishly raunchy.”\u003cbr\u003e“Brutally compelling...”\u003cbr\u003e“Jerry Stahl’s writing will flip you--flip you for real.”\u003cbr\u003e“[A] pleasantly demented police procedural for the Tarantino set.”\u003cbr\u003e“Plainclothes Naked is a page-turner.”\u003cbr\u003e“Bare-ass hilarious....A wonderfully sick comic masterpiece of the hard-boiled genre.”\u003cbr\u003e“...the new king of black humor....Plainclothes Naked [is] a hallucinogenic potboiler.”\u003cbr\u003e“[Stahl’s] brilliantly demented riffs beg to be read—or screamed—aloud.”\u003cbr\u003e“Gripping and powerful.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780060933531\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"William Morrow","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":41029000528078,"sku":"9780060933531","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/9780060933531.jpg?v=1647656642","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780060933531","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}