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Guy Redding was a photographer trying to make ends meet. After a few years snapping photos of bad people doing bad things, he was practically a gumshoe. And when a beautiful naked blonde crossed his path, he suddenly had a very personal mystery to solve. With the entire LA police force—not to mention his past—out to get him, Guy had exactly two days to find the answers to the questions that matter most.
The Naked Dame Jason Bovberg 9780966262940 Books
I was a fan of Jason Bovberg's 'alien invasion/zombie apocalypse' horror novels in the Draw Blood trilogy. They were a story of a young woman who wakes up to find almost everyone but O-positive people possessed by monsters using them as meat puppets. So, I was interested in his next book that saw him branching out in noir detective fiction.The Naked Dame, despite it's deliberately lurid cover, is actually fairly tame and more Marlowe than exploitative. The premise is a sleazy photographer, Guy Redding, got a young woman named Etta killed when he turned over his photos of her cheating to her extraordinarily jealous criminal kingpin husband. Haunted by the action, he finds himself easily swept up in the cause of protecting a young woman found naked outside of his office and vengeful when he believes it (conveniently_ ties back to his former client.
The Naked Dame is a smoke and mirrors plot taking place in 1950s Hollywood ala "L.A. Confidential", "Chinatown", and so many other works which juxtapose the beauty of the sunny city with its awful underbelly. As Ruby, the villain, says, he literally can't remember all of the women who get into his porn business as they're all interchangeable in how easy their desire to become stars is exploitable.
Guy Redding, himself, is an anti-hero who genuinely becomes close to a villain at several points. He's also easily manipulable because his guilt over Etta's death gives him what we'd call a "White Knight" complex today. He wants to save a woman or multiple women in order to make up for the one he got killed so the easiest way to manipulate him is to target any suitably attractive female around him. The fact this is demeaning is less important to the story than it's also STUPID since everyone else can see it.
The story takes several dark turns and goes in surprising directions. I didn't expect the protagonist to do half the things he did but his desperation and ruthlessness drive him ever forward, making the story far more entertaining if it had decided to treat Guy Redding as the hero he believes himself to be. It's his loathsome qualities as well as his everyman and would-be heroic ones that make him interesting--sort of like Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver.
The Naked Dame ends on a downer note but I wouldn't be adverse to Jason Bovberg making a sequel as Guy is a fascinating protagonist and evil enough to be more entertaining than a typical noir hero but good enough to not be irredeemable (perhaps). Certainly, the way things left has a certain ring of "Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown."
Which is high praise indeed.
9/10
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The Naked Dame Jason Bovberg 9780966262940 Books Reviews
I read a lot of mysteries but usually stick to whodunnits and cozy mysteries rather than dark, gritty crime fiction. I think it's good to read outside of my preferred genres on occasion, though, so I decided to give The Naked Dame, a noir/hardboiled detective novel, a try. The book had a fast pace and a steady supply of suspense, with plenty of guns, booze, smokes, and of course a naked dame or two.
The voice of The Naked Dame's storyteller, Guy Redding, was strong and consistent throughout the book, and I could almost hear him speaking as I read. I enjoyed the book and it kept me turning my 's virtual pages.
Fun hardboiled thriller in the style of early Spillane. Guy Redding is a detective who's going through a bad patch after his last peep-job ended with his client murdering his cuckolding wife. To make matters worse, Guy took the opportunity to cuckold the client himself, and now the client, who, oh yeah, is a mobster, has a grudge against him.
But all that is prologue. The story begins when Guy, while stumbling home from a night of drinking, discovers the titular naked dame, beaten and bloody hiding in an alley. Being a man who is not himself mean, Guy takes it upon himself to find what happened to her.
But this is the dark city, and nothing is ever that simple. Before long, Guy's been crossed, double-crossed, and triple-crossed.
The book, as with all good pulps, is short and to the point. Bovberg's taken Elmore Leonard's advice and didn't write any of the parts that everyone skips. The plot moves through its convolutions at a fast pace, and builds to one hell of a climax. My only qualm is that I figured out the set-up about twenty pages before Redding, though I must note that Redding was drunk and more than a little messed up by that point.
Naked Dame is a top-notch hardboiled thriller chock full of pulpy goodness. It features all the usual suspects including a down-on-his-luck private eye at odds with the local authorities, a naked blonde crying in an alley, a set of tough-as-nails hoodlums, a longstanding feud with the local bad guy, deep depression and endless boulevards of agony. Every single page in this novel sparkles with pulpiness. This is the real deal, the real McCoy, not some pretender.
The dark dreariness of Los Angeles' inner city is well portrayed here. There is not a glimpse of Beverly Hills or Hollywood here, just filthy alleys, rundown bars, and seedy apartments. And you can just taste how sour it's all turned.
The plot barrels forward and continues at a reckless pace throughout. And through it all you can feel Guy Redding's agony as he realizes over and over again what a mess he got himself into and how helpless he was in the face of a woman in distress. "A naked dame falls in your lap and nothing's the same."
This terrific novel deserves an encore.
I was a fan of Jason Bovberg's 'alien invasion/zombie apocalypse' horror novels in the Draw Blood trilogy. They were a story of a young woman who wakes up to find almost everyone but O-positive people possessed by monsters using them as meat puppets. So, I was interested in his next book that saw him branching out in noir detective fiction.
The Naked Dame, despite it's deliberately lurid cover, is actually fairly tame and more Marlowe than exploitative. The premise is a sleazy photographer, Guy Redding, got a young woman named Etta killed when he turned over his photos of her cheating to her extraordinarily jealous criminal kingpin husband. Haunted by the action, he finds himself easily swept up in the cause of protecting a young woman found naked outside of his office and vengeful when he believes it (conveniently_ ties back to his former client.
The Naked Dame is a smoke and mirrors plot taking place in 1950s Hollywood ala "L.A. Confidential", "Chinatown", and so many other works which juxtapose the beauty of the sunny city with its awful underbelly. As Ruby, the villain, says, he literally can't remember all of the women who get into his porn business as they're all interchangeable in how easy their desire to become stars is exploitable.
Guy Redding, himself, is an anti-hero who genuinely becomes close to a villain at several points. He's also easily manipulable because his guilt over Etta's death gives him what we'd call a "White Knight" complex today. He wants to save a woman or multiple women in order to make up for the one he got killed so the easiest way to manipulate him is to target any suitably attractive female around him. The fact this is demeaning is less important to the story than it's also STUPID since everyone else can see it.
The story takes several dark turns and goes in surprising directions. I didn't expect the protagonist to do half the things he did but his desperation and ruthlessness drive him ever forward, making the story far more entertaining if it had decided to treat Guy Redding as the hero he believes himself to be. It's his loathsome qualities as well as his everyman and would-be heroic ones that make him interesting--sort of like Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver.
The Naked Dame ends on a downer note but I wouldn't be adverse to Jason Bovberg making a sequel as Guy is a fascinating protagonist and evil enough to be more entertaining than a typical noir hero but good enough to not be irredeemable (perhaps). Certainly, the way things left has a certain ring of "Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown."
Which is high praise indeed.
9/10
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