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Money Shot starts with a bang, with the heroine left for dead, shot and tied up and locked in the trunk of a car, struggling to break free. She’s Angel Dare, a middle-aged former porn star who now runs an adult modeling agency. An old friend from her porn days called her up and begged her for a favor, and things went downhill from there. Once she’s out of the car, she ends up on the run and looking for revenge…
Faust is a former pro dominatrix and peep show girl, and the way she writes about the porn and sex work business is wildly different from the way male writers who’ve never been involved in it, except maybe as a customer, do. The content is the same, but the attitude is wildly different; the gaze isn’t on women as objects, but on women as people.
The sex and porn workers are sharply evaluated in both human terms and how they approach their work; the consumers are examined with an even more merciless eye, to see what buttons to push to extract money while avoiding violence. But it’s not purely monetary or purely subsistence work; sexuality is also something Dare enjoys and is driven by and understands.
The world is dark, dark, darker than black. If someone seems awful, they are. If they seem okay, ten to one they either die or betray you. People are used and abused, bought and sold. But the prose style and insider’s attitude and Dare’s hard-bitten, wiseass narration made this a book I read in a single gulp.
He looked like one of the first three guys the hero has to fight before he can get to the real bad guy.
A dominatrix specializing in medical kink, whom Angel gets taken to for medical care since she can’t go to the cops, remarks of her security man, “I removed a bullet from his right thigh two years ago. That was amazing. Well, for me, anyway.”
Money Shot (Hard Case Crime Book 40)
Faust is a former pro dominatrix and peep show girl, and the way she writes about the porn and sex work business is wildly different from the way male writers who’ve never been involved in it, except maybe as a customer, do. The content is the same, but the attitude is wildly different; the gaze isn’t on women as objects, but on women as people.
The sex and porn workers are sharply evaluated in both human terms and how they approach their work; the consumers are examined with an even more merciless eye, to see what buttons to push to extract money while avoiding violence. But it’s not purely monetary or purely subsistence work; sexuality is also something Dare enjoys and is driven by and understands.
The world is dark, dark, darker than black. If someone seems awful, they are. If they seem okay, ten to one they either die or betray you. People are used and abused, bought and sold. But the prose style and insider’s attitude and Dare’s hard-bitten, wiseass narration made this a book I read in a single gulp.
He looked like one of the first three guys the hero has to fight before he can get to the real bad guy.
A dominatrix specializing in medical kink, whom Angel gets taken to for medical care since she can’t go to the cops, remarks of her security man, “I removed a bullet from his right thigh two years ago. That was amazing. Well, for me, anyway.”
Money Shot (Hard Case Crime Book 40)
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