Heavy Metal Pulp: Pleasure Model
Presenting Heavy Metal Pulp, a new line of novels combining noir fiction with fantastic art featuring the themes, story lines, and graphic styles of Heavy Metal magazine.In Pleasure Model, the first book in the Netherworld trilogy, down-and out police detective Rook gets a big break when he’s...
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Presenting Heavy Metal Pulp, a new line of novels combining noir fiction with fantastic art featuring the themes, story lines, and graphic styles of Heavy Metal magazine.In Pleasure Model, the first book in the Netherworld trilogy, down-and out police detective Rook gets a big break when he’s assigned to a bizarre and vicious murder case. The clues are colder than the corpse and the case looks like it’ll remain unsolved—until an eyewitness is discovered. But the witness is a Pleasure Model, an illegal gene-grown human. Plesur’s only purpose is to provide satisfaction to her owner—in any way. When the murderer targets Plesur in order to eliminate the one witness, Rook takes her into hiding to protect her. Thus begins a descent into the dark world of exotic pleasure mods and their illicit buyers and manufacturers. Rook frantically looks for clues, struggling to stay one stop ahead of those looking to kill them both. But is Rook falling under Plesur’s spell….?
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780765323880 (0765323885)
Publish date: February 2nd 2010
Publisher: Tor Books
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Series: Netherworld (#1)
What a fun book! This is really what the title declares it is: Pulp Fiction. Peasure Model is an urban fantasy that the guys are going to eat up. It was a quick read and there is sex, violence and drugs, no rock and roll though. I am going to look for the next title in this series since the en...
Received this ARC as a win from Goodreads. It is not a graphic novel as I thought but a 200+ page novel with occasional illustrations. Put out by Heavy Metal so you know it will be full of Sci-Fi, violence and sex. In other words, a hormonally challenged college boy should be the one reading this. I...
I'm unfamiliar with Heavy Metal magazine, so I had no idea what to expect from Pleasure Model. What it was is unexpected, delicious fun.Even though it's got a bit of a cyberpunk/sci-fi setting, it reads like a noir: gritty setting, sexy and amoral heroes, a strong sense of place, lots of shades of ...
This is supposedly a cutting edge style of reading; half novel, half comic. What it actually is, is a simple large printed book with pictures. You might have seen others like this in the children section.I'm not going to compare this book to rape statistics. No. Not will I won't mention the absu...