Beat

I THOUGHT IS WAS DISGUSTING. ONLY LISTEN TO PART OF IT AND GAVE UP.

Second in a series of police procedurals (very loosely defined) after Boulevard, this book can’t truly be called “noir” as there is a semblance of hope at the end, but it’s about as black as one can get. Hayden Glass, an LAPD Robbery-Homicide detective is a sex addict. After witnessing the abduction......more

Let me first say this -- you have to have thick skin to deal with this book. It's laden with sexually graphic detail and language since the primary character is a homicide detective with an addiction to sex. Generally speaking, he's not opposed to internet porn, prostitutes, and the like. (Is this a......more

Beat pulled me in and yanked me through on a ride that I couldn't get off of, even if I wanted to. The main character, Hayden, is both despicable and loveable. He has a sex addiction that has evolved from hookers to internet porn, and it rides him hard throughout the novel. Even though he is a sex a......more

If you read the first book, you know what you're in for style-wise with this one. Hayden is still recovering from the events in the first book and this time his addiction takes him to San Francisco and the underground sex clubs and those who work and protect them. Again this is a procedural with ver......more

I wonder what would happen if you crossed a great crime-writer like Michael Connelly with a writer of gritty suspense movies set in the sexual underworld—something with crime and rather graphic and dark sexuality, I expect; something like Beat. I’d already read author Stephen Jay Schwartz’s short st......more