

Pimp
Author: Ken Bruen, Jason Starr
Series: Max and Angela Series #4
Narrator: Peter Berkrot
Unabridged: 6 hr 49 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 03/15/2016
Author: Ken Bruen, Jason Starr
Series: Max and Angela Series #4
Narrator: Peter Berkrot
Unabridged: 6 hr 49 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 03/15/2016
Ken Bruen, the critically acclaimed author of the Jack Taylor series and The White Trilogy, is the recipient of two Barry Awards and two Shamus Awards and has twice been a finalist for the Edgar Award.
Jason Starr has earned rave reviews for his work from publications ranging from the New York Times to Entertainment Weekly, which compared him to Jim Thompson and James M. Cain. In 2004 he received the Barry Award for his novel Tough Luck, and in 2005 he won the Anthony Award for Twisted City.
Peter Berkrot is a veteran of both stage and screen, having appeared in Caddyshack, Brotherhood, Unsolved Mysteries, and more. A prominent acting coach and a regular contributor to the award-winning news program Frontline, he was the director of narration for the Emmy-nominated The Truth About Cancer. His voice can be heard on television, radio, video games, documentaries, and industrials. An Audie Award nominee and the winner of multiple Earphones Awards, he has recorded over 170 audiobooks.
Parts were really funny, and I appreciate a quick read between bouts with my usual fare. Late in the book, there is a meta swipe at the cover (however fetching)- something which had bothered me: Janet assured her that there was nothing to worry about, that Hard Case already had the cover painted for t......more
When you get two great authors together you expect something great to happen. this is the case here, Starr and Bruen have again created a blast of a book. Love the characters, although i wouldnt want to meet them. You find yourself rooting for them even thought they are lousy humans. Love reading bo......more
The Max and Angela Saga climaxes in a laugh out loud, violent and ridiculous frenzy of drugs, delusion and Hollywood! 5/5 highly recommended......more
"Doesn't matter what you sell, how you sell it is what matters" Wow! Once I read this quote I was hooked!(pun intended) Before I read PIMP, I had already thought that it was going to be your usual cliché story of a person who goes from nothing to something through marketing prostitutes; hence the ti......more
Max and Angela do Hollywood in the 4th installment of the Bruen/Starr humorous noir series collaboration. Max, now a hardened criminal with an over-inflated sense of self worth and delusions of grandeur, finds himself as the sole mass producer of wonder drug PIMP; a drug that will surely etch his na......more
“I want to kill these guys—except I can’t stop laughing long enough.” Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author
“Perfect for those who like to laugh while the blood flows.” Booklist