Friday's Forgotten Books:
ON TENDERNESS EXPRESS
by Maxim Jakubowski
When Maxim Jakubowski wrote THIS excellent piece for Mullholland Books' website about the lack of good erotic thrillers these days, the only recent examples I could come up with were books written by HIM!And this book is the one that first came to mind.
I think that I bought Maxim Jakubowki's ON TENDERNESS EXPRESS from his legendary Murder One Bookshop in either 2000 or 2001 . Ten years ago! Yet I still remember it vividly and there's been a lot of booze under the bridge since then, I can tell you.
I think that I bought Maxim Jakubowki's ON TENDERNESS EXPRESS from his legendary Murder One Bookshop in either 2000 or 2001 . Ten years ago! Yet I still remember it vividly and there's been a lot of booze under the bridge since then, I can tell you.
On Tenderness Express is both a clever detective story and an erotic thriller worthy of James M Cain.
The skinny is that P.I Martin Jackson has to track down a missing wife, a missing kid-sister and a missing book.There's a great international feel in this atmospheric story which travels from London to Amsterdam, New Orleans and New York.
And there is also a truly fantastic character : Cornelia, a deadly hit woman, a stripper and book collector!
Harboiled meets Hardcore? Noir meets Henry Miller? I dunno but Maxim Jakubowksi is a much better storyteller than Miller, I'll tell you that!
This is a whip-crack of a book that would make Shannon Tweed blush.
By the way, I'm well pleased to See that Cornelia makes an appearance in Maxim's forthcoming novel 'I WAS WAITING FOR YOU'
Maxim informs me that ON TENDERNESS EXPRESS is out of print at the moment but it IS available in an omnibus volume, SKIN IN DARKNESS, which also includes his other novels IT'S YOU THAT I WANT TO KISS and BECAUSE SHE THOUGHT SHE LOVED ME.
Paticia Abbott has more FRIDAY'S FORGOTTEN BOOKS at
her legendary blog HERE
This is a whip-crack of a book that would make Shannon Tweed blush.
By the way, I'm well pleased to See that Cornelia makes an appearance in Maxim's forthcoming novel 'I WAS WAITING FOR YOU'
Maxim informs me that ON TENDERNESS EXPRESS is out of print at the moment but it IS available in an omnibus volume, SKIN IN DARKNESS, which also includes his other novels IT'S YOU THAT I WANT TO KISS and BECAUSE SHE THOUGHT SHE LOVED ME.
Paticia Abbott has more FRIDAY'S FORGOTTEN BOOKS at
her legendary blog HERE
5 comments:
Great call Paul.
Like you I bought this book and others by Maxim in the much missed Murder One. He is a great writer and I thoroughly enjoyed them – also his short stuff in the “Fresh Blood” anthologies; Maxim was an editor supreme of these books (and others).
Only trouble, Maxim can be so erotic that you risk getting a bit hot under the collar reading them on the train journey to work. I used to consider disguising them by hiding them inside a copy of Penthouse!
Wow. Hot under the collar. Have to try it.
I'm waiting with anticipation for I Was Waiting For You . . .
"...Maxim can be so erotic that you risk getting a bit hot under the collar reading them on the train journey to work."
SWEET!!! Just what I need... a little erotica on the train... have to save it for the ride home... wouldn't do for me to show up at my daycare job all aroused...
Okay... I am getting this book!!!
Thanks everyone for popping in. Yep, it's a scorcher!
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