Harry and Crystal in their most dangerous--and sexiest--adventure yet
"Harry Palmer's latest Odyssey through the noir underbelly of LA takes him into a hell of mirrors; the intricately plotted narrative traps him among a pornography industry that mimics Hollywood; an FBI that reflects the Chicago mobs; and US attempts to crush Iranian democracy. Never has a hard-boiled dick hallucinated so accurately the contradictions of mid-century history-and in the company of a panoply of heart-stopping heroines, strong women who want to work, not for men, but for themselves, in a mid-century treat to enlighten a century that is going straight to hell"-David E. James, USC School of Cinema, author, Rock 'N' Film; Cinema's Dance with Popular Music and long term LA resident.
"Pornocopia reads like a Raymond Chandler novel written for the age of platforms and surveillance. Dennis Broe uses noir not as pastiche but as method-tracking power, desire, and corruption through a landscape where pornography isn't a side business, but the engine of a nascent digital capitalism. Hard-boiled, politically sharp, and deeply American, this is fiction that understands how systems really work: follow the money, follow the bodies."- Peter Rader, author and screenwriter, Waterworld
"If Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlow searched his family tree, he'd find Dennis Broe's Harry Palmer and Crystal Eckart. Their common DNA includes crackle sharp narration, plots like minefields, and characters that crawl out of a cesspool fronting as a swimming pool. They share a need to expose a crime called America, a mask of cheerful optimism covering worlds of corruption and deception. In Pornocopia, they find a swamp in the desert: pornography, the Mob and Las Vegas."-Jerry W Carlson, Professor Film & Literature City College of New York.
Pornocopia is about a perilous coming together of the mob, financial interests and the government. Ex- homicide detective Harry Palmer tangles with low level mafiosi holding his client, the sex-reel star Purrfect, hostage, while ex-club girl Crystal Eckart is trying to get a producer, about to have his big Hollywood break, out from under the thumb of both the F.B.I. and the Un-American Activities Committee. In the background lurks the Chicago Mob, a studio mogul and a mysterious government entity. More than enough murder, sex and suspense to, pun intended, shake a stick at.
