Plainclothes Naked - Softcover

Stahl, Jerry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060933534 ISBN 13: 9780060933531

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2002

Synopsis

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....

About this title

Review:

"[Stahl] goes for the reader's funny bone via the jugular vein....fast-paced and truly comical."--Phoenix New Times

"[Stahl's] brilliantly demented riffs beg to be read--or screamed--aloud."--Entertainment Weekly

"Raw and devilishly raunchy."--Vanity Fair

"Bare-ass hilarious....A wonderfully sick comic masterpiece of the hard-boiled genre."--Paper Magazine

"Brutally compelling..."--Publishers Weekly

"Plainclothes Naked is a page-turner."--MAXIM magazine

"Jerry Stahl's writing will flip you--flip you for real."--Benicio Del Toro

"Jerry Stahl is the American hipster bard."--James Ellroy, author of L.A. Confidential and My Dark Places

"[A] pleasantly demented police procedural for the Tarantino set."--Kirkus

"...the new king of black humor....Plainclothes Naked [is] a hallucinogenic potboiler."--The New York Post

About the Author:

Jerry Stahl is the author of the narcotic memoir Permanent Midnight and Perv--a Love Story, both Los Angeles Times bestsellers, as well as the acclaimed novels Pain Killers, Plainclothes Naked, and I, Fatty. He has written extensively for film and television.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0060933534
• ISBN 13: 9780060933531
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336