Money Shot
Published on 18. February 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-1-83541-172-8 (ISBN)
Description
Voted the #1 Hard Case Crime Novel of All Time and nominated for an Edgar Award, the latest edition of Christa Faust's debut features an early preview of her next novel featuring lurid protagonist Angel Dare.
THEY THOUGHT SHE'D BE EASY. THEY THOUGHT WRONG.
It all began with the phone call asking former porn star Angel Dare to do one more movie. Before she knew it, she'd been shot and left for dead in the trunk of a car. But Angel is a survivor. And that means she'll get to the bottom of what's been done to her even if she has to leave a trail of bodies along the way...
THEY THOUGHT SHE'D BE EASY. THEY THOUGHT WRONG.
It all began with the phone call asking former porn star Angel Dare to do one more movie. Before she knew it, she'd been shot and left for dead in the trunk of a car. But Angel is a survivor. And that means she'll get to the bottom of what's been done to her even if she has to leave a trail of bodies along the way...
Reviews / Votes
"Money Shot is a stunner, careening along with a wild, propulsive energy and a deliciously incendiary spirit. Laced with bravado and loaded up with knockabout charm, Christa Faust's Hard Case debut is the literary equivalent of a gasoline cocktail."-Megan Abbott
"An instant pulp classic."
-Rolling Stone
"I was sucked into the tight, juicy Money Shot, from the ripping car trunk start to the hard-pumping climax. This novel is so convincing that you want to believe Faust has been an oversexed, naked killing machine, at least once."
-Vicki Hendricks
"Money Shot is smart, stylish, insightful, fast-paced pulp fiction with razor-sharp humor and a kick-ass heroine. Christa Faust is a super crime writer."
-Jason Starr
"Money Shot makes most crime novels seem about as exciting as the missionary position on a Tuesday night. The results are stunning."
-Duane Swierczynski
"Wonderfully lurid, with attitude to spare and a genuine affection for the best of hardboiled traditions. Christa Faust is THE business."
-Maxim Jakubowski
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
180 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-83541-172-8 (9781835411728)
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Christa Faust grew up in the Bronx and Hell's Kitchen, spending most of her teen years on endless subway rides, cutting school, and writing. She sold her first short story when she moved to Los Angeles in the early '90s, and still considers herself an expat rather than a native. She's an avid reader of vintage paperbacks, a film noir enthusiast and a tattooed lady who writes hardboiled crime fiction.