<![CDATA[Pain Killers]]>

false <![CDATA[Pain Killers]]> 4032554 1 From the acclaimed and controversial author of Permanent Midnight comes one of the most vividly subversive, savagely funny, and explosive novels yet unleashed in our tender century. Pain Killers is a violent and mind-wrenching masterpiece in the gonzo noir style that has earned Jerry Stahl his legion of avid fans. Down-and-out ex-cop and not-quite-reformed addict Manny Rupert accepts a job going undercover to find out if an old man locked up in a California prison is who he claims to be: the despicable—and allegedly dead—Josef Mengele, aka the Angel of Death. What if, instead of drowning thirty years ago, the sadistic legend whose Auschwitz crimes still horrify faked his own death and is now locked up in San Quentin, ranting and bitter about being denied the adulation he craves for his contribution to keeping the Master Race pure—if no longer masterful? After accidentally reuniting with ex-wife and love of his life, Tina, at San Quentin—they first met at the crime scene where Tina murdered her first husband with Drano-laced Lucky Charms—Manny spends a bad night imbibing boxed wine and questionable World War One morphine, hunched over a trove of photos showing live genital dissections that plant him in the middle of a conspiracy involving genocide, drugs, eugenics, human experiments, and America's secret history of collusion with German believers in Nordic superiority. Manny's quest sends him careening from one extreme of apocalypse-adjacent reality to the other: from SS-inked Jewish shotcallers to meth-crazed virgin hookers, from Mexican gangbangers to Big Pharma–financed prison research to an animal shelter that gasses more than stray dogs and cats . . . Pain Killers captures one man's struggle against a perverse and demented scheme of global proportions, in a literary tour de force as outrageous, compelling, and dangerous as history itself. Not for the faint of heart, the novel hurtles readers into a disturbing, original, and alarmingly real world filled with some of the kinkiest sex, most horrific violence, and screaming wit ever found on the page—proving yet again that Stahl is, as The New Yorker described him, "a better-than-Burroughs virtuoso." 4079148 1 3 2009 Pain Killers total:33|5:8|4:4|3:12|2:7|1:2| 33 108 84 17 3 0 false false Sun Feb 22 13:15:16 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 13:15:28 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Jun 21 19:43:03 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 21 19:43:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Apr 11 13:20:43 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 11 13:21:26 -0700 2009 Good But Disappointing

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Manny Rupert is a former cop and sometimes former recovering drug addict. In the opening third of the book we see just how difficult life is for Rupert as we are introduced to his struggles with his ex-wife, drugs, money, and general poor decisi...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Apr 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 17:40:45 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 22 07:26:12 -0700 2009
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Manny Rupert, an addict, a cop kicked off the force, an the ex-husband of a murderer, is back for round two. This time he's been hired to go undercover in San Quentin and determine whether a sick old man in for vehi...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Mar 15 17:29:22 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 30 00:06:09 -0700 2009 Pain Killers, Stahl's newest work of fiction, it is hard to say exactly what frame of mind, personality disorder, or introverted social skill Stahl is channeling. Yet it is glaringly obvious ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Apr 28 12:35:30 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 28 12:39:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jun 26 18:11:02 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 26 18:25:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 15 14:10:47 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 15:37:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat May 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 02 14:22:56 -0700 2009 Fri May 08 17:40:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Tue Feb 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 09:55:28 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 09:59:05 -0800 2009 5 1 false false Sun Jun 07 17:30:53 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 07 17:31:42 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Aug 20 20:32:50 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 20:33:18 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jun 09 04:13:48 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 04:14:08 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Tue Apr 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 23:33:42 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 07 12:25:52 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Mon Feb 16 14:47:35 -0800 2009 Fri May 22 15:29:39 -0700 2009
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