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Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Book: Money Shot, by Christa Faust (2008)

My, but things have been in the gutter around here lately, haven’t they? And I see no reason to change that.


Some of you may recall how much I wanted a preview copy of Money Shot by Christa Faust, the first woman to be published by Hard Case Crime. I was thwarted in that effort, but a good Samaritan who shall remain nameless stepped in. An organization that shall also remain nameless delayed my reading the book until now. But I still beat the street date by two weeks.

Ex-porn star Angel Dare – née Gina Moretti – has found success on the other side of the camera running a booking agency. She agrees to do one last movie as a favor for a friend, only to find herself bound, gagged, and left for dead in the trunk of a Honda Civic. She has no idea why this happened, but she’s hell-bent on finding out – even if it means transforming herself into an avenging Angel to do it.

Two words to describe Money Shot are fast and mean. It’s a savvy tour of the porn demimonde in which no one can be trusted to do anything, even stay alive. I enjoyed the hell out of it.

So your porn name is your childhood pet and the street you grew up on? Say hello to Prince Wilshire. With a handle that good, maybe I ought to get into the business.

Labels: Books

posted by Vince  # 11:52 AM

2 Comments:

At 10:34 AM #  Gaspo said:

Prince Wilshire? Sox Rodney, glad to meet you.

 

At 10:43 AM #  Christa Faust said:

Prince Wilshire is brilliant. My name according to that formula is utterly atrocious: Evenstar Hillside. Yes, my hippy parents had two cats named Elfstone and Evenstar. Evenstar Hillside doesn't do porn, she writes erotic Tolkien fanfic. Yikes!

Dave Schow has the best one of all time: Jinx Winchester. Sounds like a pulp western hero.

Glad you dug the book.

 

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