Pimp

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Reteaming a decade after their award-nominated first collaboration, Bruen and Starr complete the saga ofwannabe druglord Max Fisher and his one-time assistant Angela, now working in the capital of sin anddepravity: Hollywood.

Ruined and on the lam, former drug kingpin Max Fisher stumbles upon the biggest discovery of his crookedlife: a designer drug called PIMP that could put him back on top. Meanwhile, a certain femme fatale from hispast is pursuing a comeback dream of her own, setting herself up in Hollywood as producer of a series basedon her and Max's life story. But even in La-La Land, happy endings are hard to come by, especially with boththe cops and your enemies in the drug trade coming after you

Reviews

"To add to the already outlandish black comedy, the authors make liberal use of a wide variety of celebrity's names to further illustrate the absurd situations portrayed, as well as double- (and) triple-crosses, blunders, miscalculations, violence, sex and blackmail. All in good fun." -Midwest Book Review

Fast-paced, engrossingly entertaining, Pimp is outrageously funny. -New York Journal of Books

"In Bruen and Starrs scattershot fourth Max Fisher noir (after 2008sThe Max), a new designer drug called PIMP (an acronym forpeyote,insulin,mescaline, andpsychosis) is poised to give the neer-do-well New York City businessman (i.e., drug dealer) another shot at the big time. Since the first book in the series, 2006sBust, in which Max and his secretary, Angela Petrakos, plotted to kill his wife, Max has fallen on hard times, appearing after his plastic surgery like Philip Seymour Hoffman after the autopsy. Meanwhile, Angela has stumbled as well, making a living in porn. But shes caught a break, too. In a metafictional twist, a movie ofBustis in heated development, and shes determined to produce and star. The usual torrent of pop culture references (and relentless self-references) heap satire on filmmaking and crime writing as Bruen and Starr take a comic look back at their initial collaboration. Longtime fans may enjoy the 10th-anniversary antics, but new readers might want to start withBustand work their way up." -Publishers Weekly

"I want to kill these guysexcept I cant stop laughing long enough."
Lee Child

"Downright hilarious and bloodthirsty in the best possible way.
With all the dirt and more you could ask about Hollywood
and the world of crime publishing."
Maxim Jakubowski

"Perfect for those who like to laugh while the blood flows."
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"You won't put this delightfully twisted novel down until the last hot page, and then reluctantly." -Marvin Minkler First Editions

"PIMP is a wild ride of sheer fun and entertainment. Fans of both Bruen and Starr will love this book.... Hard Case Crime once again proves why they are the greatest hard-boiled and noir publishing house in the world." -BookReporter

This hilarious series and its hapless, deluded main characters is like no other in the entire contemporary crime fiction world." -Bookgasm

Author Bio

Ken Bruen has been nominated for nearly every major award in the mystery field and won the Shamus Award. Jason Starr has won raves for his work from publications ranging from The New York Times to Entertainment Weekly, which compared him to Jim Thompson and James M. Cain. In 2004, he received the Barry Award for his novel Tough Luck, and in 2005 he won the Anthony Award for Twisted City. He also writes comics for Marvel and DC, as well as original graphic novels. He lives in New York City.