content: If there was a rating lower than one star, I would use it.This book is a real bottom feeder. It's filled with sludge....racism, profanity, dehumanization, sexism and, yes, violence as well. Since the author has other, better books the only possible excuse for this book is that he was trying to spoof the old hardboiled detective genre...and missed by about a million miles.I can see no reason to explore the lives and motives of such stereotyped characters, who are thoroughly awful humans, shallow and (thank goodness!) unbelievable.I am not easily offended, and in fact like some of this author's other work. But this book is a total waste of time and money.Do yourself (and the author) a big favor and skip this one!