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Lädt ... Nude on Thin Ice (1960)von Gil Brewer
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lust-filled characters who are compelled by money and passion to do things those with sane minds wouldn't do. His characters are stuck on a path to destruction and can't stop even when they can see quite clearly where they are going.
Nude on Thin Ice is a particular type of pulp novel where almost every character in it is twisted in some way. Few of the characters offer any redeeming qualities, including the protagonist Ken McCall, who is about as swarmy and slimy as they come, out to use anyone he can get his hands on, motivated by greed and lust and panic, woman-dumper, woman-beater, playboy, degenerate, etc. What makes the
book great is how Brewer makes the reader care about what happens to this miserable creature.
Others in the book are greedy, vain, manipulative, conniving, incestuous, violent, sneaky, lying, and hateful. What do you expect from a story about a jerk who dumps his girlfriend and hightails it across the country merely to attempt to seduce his best friend's widow and get his hands on her fortune? And,
Slimy Ken may just be the most sane and levelheaded one in the veritable madhouse that buddy Carl Schroeder left behind.
The story is well-plotted and compelling but it's Brewer's writing filled as it is with pulpy goodness that blasts this novel into the hall of pulp fame. ( )