Plainclothes Naked - by Jerry Stahl (Paperback)

About the Book

James Ellroy calls him the American hipster bard. In "Plainclothes Naked, " the darkly satiric author of "Permanent Midnight" and "Perv--A Love Story" turns his twisted wit, imagination, and no-holds-barred approach to the detective novel.

From the Back Cover

In a wildly careening plot that can only be described as crack noir, two pipeheads accidentally steal a photo of George W. Bush's presidential package and decide to blackmail the Republican Party. Before the crack-crazed thieves can follow through, however, gorgeous, whip-smart Nurse Tina, who's just offed her husband with a bowl of Drano-laced Lucky Charms, absconds with the goods. When Manny Rubert, a scarred ex-junkie turned codeine-popping detective, is called in to investigate the "foamer" hubby's untimely demise, love hits him like a wrench to the head.

Soon Manny and Tina are making plans of their own for the presidential pie -- and for their future together. But the meddling police chiefs and motel room sex-change surgeons of the world just won't leave them alone. And then there are those killer crackheads, still out there and closing in....

Review Quotes

"Gripping and powerful." - Mirabella
"Bare-ass hilarious....A wonderfully sick comic masterpiece of the hard-boiled genre." - Paper Magazine
"[Stahl's] brilliantly demented riffs beg to be read--or screamed--aloud." - Entertainment Weekly
"[Stahl] goes for the reader's funny bone via the jugular vein....fast-paced and truly comical." - Phoenix New Times
"Raw and devilishly raunchy." - Vanity Fair
"Brutally compelling..." - Publishers Weekly