Plainclothes Naked

Stahl, author of the critically acclaimed Permanent Midnight (1995), uses his flair for dark comedy to create this hard-boiled crime caper. When Detective Manny Rubert comes into possession of a salacious photograph of George W. Bush, he has to both uncover its mysterious origin as well as fend off its former owners, a horrifyingly sadistic crackhead and his sidekick, an African American Dean Martin look-alike. As Rubert, a former heroin junkie who now pops codeine pills, untangles the mysteries surrounding the picture, he also becomes embroiled in a love affair with the person who gave it to him: a femme fatale nurse who just killed her husband by spiking his cereal with Drano. Stahl crams his novel with colorful characters, from the fatuous police chief whose only knowledge of law enforcement comes from the movies to the plastic surgeon who performs illegal sex-change operations. Readers who are steel-stomached enough to withstand the gruesome violence as well as Stahl's harrowing depiction of crack addiction will well enjoy this fast-paced comic thriller. - Booklist

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