Pleasure Model: Netherworld Book 1

Hard Case Crime has no reason to worry, but Heavy Metal Pulp is a welcome new brand to crime fiction. Coming from the minds behind HEAVY METAL, however, that crime comes complete with a big, fat dose of sex and sci-fi, and illustrated like the fantasy magazine to boot. First out of the gate for the label is PLEASURE MODEL: NETHERWORLD BOOK 1 by Christopher Rowley.

Set in the latter half of this century, the novel begins with dominatrix Angela Bricken cleaning up after servicing a client, Gen. Manuel Sangacha. He’s retired, having headed up a black-ops unit. Angela doesn’t know this, but certainly could guess after men storm in with guns and take him out, as she cowers in hiding.

It’s left up to homicide detectives Rook Venner and Lindi MacEar to investigate the scene. They find no sign of Angela; the only human there is Plesur, a buxom blond bimbo harvested in a lab for the pure pleasure of serving as a sex object. Accordingly, her breasts are huge and her brain like a blueberry. She speaks like a 3-year-old, but presumably screws like she’s 21.

Fearing Plesur would be raped by his fellow officers, Rook takes her home, and it takes every bit of willpower for him not to succumb to her sexual advances. Fornication quickly is pushed toward the back of his mind when his house explodes. They escape, barely, given a moment’s warning by a mystery man’s phone call, and immediately go on the run, as Rook tries to figure out not only why Sangacha was murdered, but why Plesur is being targeted, too. Turns out, a whorehouse makes for an excellent hiding spot.

The downside to this stew of action and ass is that it doesn’t answer all of Rook’s questions, which speaks to the BOOK 1 portion of the subtitle, one presumes. With military gunships, snipers and — best of all — invisible assassination squads all after our hero, PLEASURE MODEL moves fast. Switch off the gray matter and speed along with it.

The quick trip is aided by the illustrations of Justin Norman, gracing practically every page, presented in letterbox-sized panels that don’t overpower the prose, but give you just enough of a visual punch to keep the cinematic flavor of the thing spiced. That’s easy to do when your story is like MINORITY REPORT with a Realdoll plopped in its chewy center. —Rod Lott

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“Setting himself between her legs, Rook started slow, came quickly, restarted with barely a moment’s hesitation, and took his time on the second go-round. Soozie’s hands held tight to his ass, as she kissed him and bit his neck in equal measure, arching her back, crying out. He let himself go and the floor poured out of his veins, shaking everything within him and leaving him spent and, for the moment, oblivious. … Rook found the stimulation more than he could resist. His hands cupped her firm, round breasts. She raised a leg and straddled him. She was wet, ready, and he slid in with a single smooth flexion of her hips.”

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