Tarantino Serge (from Tim Dorsey books) Elmore Leonard and you get this laugh it loud insanely violent book. The best one in the series.
THE ONLY DOWNSIDE
The editing/proofreading is absolutely pathetic! If in fact anyone did proofread this book they should be fired immediately. ( )

Too satirical, too cliche, too much name dropping, covers every crime novel/movie from the past 25 years, too over the top ( )

Pimp follows in the roaring wake of Bust, Slide, & Max, a quartet of crazy noir-edged missiles from Starr and Bruen. Noir is generally serious stuff filled with guys and dames driven to extremes by greed, passion, despair, loneliness, or just the general rottenness and meanness of a cold empty world. Pimp, even more so than the other three books in what has become a series, is a comedic farce that takes many of the elements typifying crime fiction stories and punches the characterizations to extremes.

Despite the extreme body count and all the sexual innuendo, this is a book that is like a walking stand-up comedy act about crime fiction and crime fiction writers and publishers. It is filled with passages, not just about writers, but about Hard Case Crime and Charles Ardai and titles and writers familiar to anyone who reads such fiction. It also parodies Hollywood, producers, agents, directors. And, there's lots of name-dropping to personalities in the news.

Pimp is more over-the-top than any of the other books in the series which began with Max running a computer networking company and plotting with his femme fatale secretary Angela to off his wife. Unfortunately for him, Angela's other beau was a psychotic hitman. From there, the storyline just got crazier with serial killers, hip hop drug dealing former exec Max, Attica-prison break Max, and now new- identity Max. A lot of characters from the previous books come together in this one- although not everyone survives.

If you are looking for a serious crime story, this might not be it, but if you are open to wild, mad, nuttiness with murder and double-crosses that'll make you laugh out loud because it's so over-the-top, this is it. ( )

"For all those who did fuck all to help us or give us a review."
Well, needless to say, I liked this book right from the dedication above!
PIMP:
Peyote
Insulin
Mescaline
and a liberal sprinkle of Psychosis.
In short, one hell of a drug! Though, not entirely what this book is about! I liked this read a lot, it's fast paced, good dialogue (and dialects!), and lots of action, sex, and vulgar language! Great use of pop culture references and lots of funny Lee Child jibes! My reason for not giving it more stars is that it simply seems like a darker version of "Get Shorty", which strangely is quoted, mentioned, and even referenced on the back cover! But really, it seems like a straight knock off! So much so, that Elmore should be listed as a co-co-writer for fook's sake! But if I hadn't read, or seen, "Get Shorty", this is a 4 or 4 1/2 star book for sure! ( )

Tarantino + Serge (from Tim Dorsey books) + Elmore Leonard and you get this laugh it loud insanely violent book. The best one in the series.
THE ONLY DOWNSIDE
The editing/proofreading is absolutely pathetic! If in fact anyone did proofread this book they should be fired immediately. ( )