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Ladies' Man
Ladies' Man
Ladies' Man
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Ladies' Man

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Three girls and a man - that was the set-up. And it suited Nicky fine because he was the man! Of course, it took a bit of juggling. Alice for instance, just wanted love all the time. But Marie was after a little business with her pleasure. As for Lola - lovely Lola - she was pure trouble . . .

But worth it, Nicky figured. That sweet-smelling, long-legged body of hers. And that $25,000! He didn’t see why he couldn’t have Lola, her money - and the other girls besides. Not only were they crazy about him, but they were such pretty little creatures. Always ready for a romp, a party - or a rendezvous!
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Release dateJan 15, 2012
ISBN9781440539671
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    Orrie Hitt wrote sleaze pulp in the fifties that bore lurid covers and racy titles. The men in his books were all conmen, grifters, and other types of sleazeballs. The women were tramps and lushes. Nicky Weaver stars in two of Hitt's sleazy masterpieces, "I'll Call Every Monday" and "Ladies' Man." Weaver had gotten burned before by women and by business and he was sour and cynical and would do just about anything for money. He thought women were "always on hand to drain you dry, leaving you ready to push down any road where you thought there might be money around the next curve."

    After pulling an insurance scam in "I'll Call Every Monday," one that went sour real quick, Weaver heads into Chesterville in response to an ad for a radio salesman. "It looked like a lazy town, a dumb town," but he had nothing better going on. When he gets to the radio station, the appearance of the little yellow building "left him almost as cold as a streetwalker's heart." "To Nicky, it looked like a place in which it would be ridiculous for anybody to try to make a living." But, of course, that was before he met Marie, the owner of the station, having inherited it from her father and left saddled with his debts. She often sat in her office, drowning her troubles in a bottle or two of booze. Nicky "could smell her even before he saw her and after he saw her he couldn't say anything at all." "She was a white blonde with lips the color of fresh blood." "Her hips, as she walked across the office, rolled like they were fastened to her with ball bearings." But, he wondered if she would be another Bess, another Irene, "a glamorous agglutination of female flesh with the mind of a pickpocket." "He was hard, bitter inside and he belonged with the real bastards, the kind who'd swipe flowers off a grave to send to a wedding."

    It's interesting how Nicky takes to running the radio station after a hilarious first night of playing records at the wrong speed and leaving his microphone off. Eventually, he comes up with a foolproof scheme to get lots of money and the hell with anyone who gets in his way.

    How can you like such sleazy, dirty, conniving, bitter people? Orrie Hitt has a magic way of creating such characters out of whole cloth and reeling the reader in so that the reader finds them fascinating, finds their exploits and their dirty deeds fascinating. There is nothing soft or fuzzy about a Hitt novel and the lead characters could never be confused with white knights or fairy princesses, but there is a hard, gutsy reality about his writing. A Hitt novel is not for everyone and some will be put off by the sleaziness of the characters who aren't saints or angels and Nicky Weaver is watching every woman who walks by in a tight sweater and thinking how to put the make on her. But, as long as you know what you are getting into, you can settle back and enjoy this novel for what it is and the characters for who they are.

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