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Money Shot (Hard Case Crime)
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by Christa Faust
Sales Rank: 33583
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List Price: $6.99
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Mass Market Paperback: 250 pages
Publisher: Hard Crime Case January 29, 2008
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0843959584
ISBN-13: 978-0843959581
Product Dimensions:
6.8 x 4.4 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
From Publishers Weekly
Retired from her life as a porn star, Angel Dare now owns Daring Angels, a high-class adult modeling agency. Life as a desk jockey is pretty predictable until an underfed foreign girl named Lia shows up asking to contact one of Angel's models. Before Angel can figure out what the girl really wants, Lia makes a hasty exit through the bathroom window. Next thing she knows, Angel herself is locked in the trunk of a battered blue Honda Civic—beaten, raped, shot up and left for dead. Recovering and resolving to exact justice and clear her name of the frame job she's also been left with, Angel turns to the only person who can help, her part-time agency security guy, ex-cop Lalo Malloy. Feisty Angel wises up to the rancid underbelly of the sex trade as she and Malloy take down the hoods one by one. (Feb.)
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Customer Reviews & Comments
If you had ever thought that women couldn't write hard-boiled fiction, Christa Faust will quickly prove you wrong. Her new book Money Shot shows she is not only a good female crime writer, she is just a good writer period. The narrator and heroine of Money Shot is Angel Dare, a retired porn actress who is now moderately successful as an agent for other women in her former field. Approaching forty and lamenting it, she is talked into making one last movie with up-and-coming star Jesse Black, who's personally requested her. She arrives at the set only to find out it's all a trap: Jesse and her movie director friend Sam have lured her here at the request of some mobster who's looking for a lost briefcase filled with cash. When Angel can't come up with the necessary answers, they leave her to Jesse who shoots her and leaves her for dead in the back of an abandoned car. Fortunately, Jesse is not that great in the killing department and Angel survives, only to find she is accused of Sam's murder. As a wounded fugitive, she has few options, but she does have a friend in her company's security guy, Lalo Malloy. As an ex-cop, Malloy is resourceful enough, and he hides her. The two then try to clear Angel, find the briefcase, and most importantly for her, get revenge for the abuse she suffered. Besides the fact that Faust has a nice writing style, she also doesn't fall into many of the cliches of the genre, leading to twists and a conclusion that are unexpected but good. She also provides a deeper look into the porn industry than you might typically find in a crime story about the field; I also personally enjoyed her use of my native San Fernando Valley as a setting (as also noted in the movie Boogie Nights, the Valley is the porn film production capital). Money Shot is a thoroughly enjoyable little thriller and Christa Faust is a name to keep a look out for.
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Money Shot (Hard Case Crime)
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