From the blurb – feminine FBI agent takes over a brand new subject workplace in Ohio, discovers a brand new designer drug, bumps heads along with her boss, sizes up a jailbird snitch, individuals get useless throughout her – you’d assume this can be a run-of-the-murder-mill, trendy American crime thriller.
Suppose once more.
Seldom do you discover such unspeakable topics because the themes in Full Tilt Boogie being described with the near-poetic precision of Robb White’s acid prose. This novel just isn’t for the faint-hearted nor the lily-livered. There’s blood and there’s butchery and there’s completely nothing fairly to see right here.
But it’s nearly unattainable to tear your eyes away from the web page, as FBI investigator Jade Hui plunges ever deeper into the center of darkness. The staccato scenes jump-cut from bare-knuckle brawling to skin-tingling seduction to sleazy snuff films and torture porn, by the use of prostitution, mutilation and exploitation and with a couple of conflict crimes thrown in for good measure.
One factor’s for positive: Hui is caught within the cross-hairs of a global narcotics ring however she received’t again down. The collateral harm to her terrier-like tenacity seems to be terminal for the individuals round her. There are a couple of flinch-inducing moments the place her personal survival appears mighty moot, too.
It’s a harsh lens to look by, however Full Tilt Boogie brings the identical intense scrutiny to the kind of ethical degeneracy which is equally showcased in American Psycho, Battle Membership and No Nation For Outdated Males. And like these titles it’s a difficult however thought-provoking learn.
Simply wanted barely tighter modifying – some typos snuck by.
8/10
Reviewed by Rowena Hoseason
Full Tilt Boogie by Robb T White is obtainable at Amazon
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