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The day that Debbie Dare learned of her husband’s death had
started out like any other: she went to work, naked, on her
back and wished her co-star would hurry up as she feigned
passion for yet another porn film.
But there was no faking her surprise when she arrived home
at the end of the day and found the front yard filled with
cops. The housekeeper had found Debbie’s husband, Theon,
dead. He’d accidentally electrocuted himself in the bathtub
– along with a naked teenager who was apparently auditioning
for Theon’s films.
Debbie supposed she loved Theon. He didn’t beat her. They
were as compatible as was possible, but he spent too much
money – a fact that was underscored when a loan shark showed
up at the door, hours after Theon’s death, and demanded that
Debbie pay up on the money Theon borrowed.
It was the last straw.
Once upon a time, Debbie Dare was known as Sandra Peel. She
was her parents’ only daughter, the middle child of three,
and she was wild. At 15, she was working on her knees in a
parking lot, which was where she met the much-older Theon
and her life changed. It was about to change again because,
though Theon had left her broke and she was about to be
homeless, Debbie was done with porn.
Or was she? When the loan shark sold his debt to an L.A.
mobster, Debbie was given an ultimatum: pay up or act again,
a choice that she wasn’t going to make. She suddenly saw the
porn industry for what it was. The only passion she had was
for a “handsome man” named Suicide, “all silence and smiles”
and urges to die...
You know those old black-&-white war movies, where soldiers
try to outrun exploding artillery shells? This book is
something like that: it’s run-run-BOOM, run-run-BOOM all the
way to the end of Debbie Doesn’t Do It Anymore.
And that’s quite a surprise: Debbie Dare is no Easy Rawlins,
and she’s not Socrates – two things that every fan of author
Walter Mosley will want to know. There are hints of both of
Mosley’s most famous characters, but this book is much more
explicit than his past few novels. That’s not a bad thing,
once you get into the heart of this most excellent story but
it definitely bears mentioning – especially if profanity
isn’t your cup of tea.
If you don’t mind X-rated scenes, though, and you need your
Mosley fix, then this is the book you need to find. For you,
Debbie Doesn’t Do It Anymore will surely be a big
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