BOOK REVIEW: TRIPLE AXE BY SCOTT COLE

BY JOHN BODEN 

Scott Cole has been toiling in the trenches for a number of years now. He writes wonderfully weird stories and has seen his work published by Eraserhead Press and Black T-Shirt Books. This novella is brought to us/you from the fine and fucked-up folks at Grindhouse Press. I mean that in the nicest way, they put out good things. Vile and dirty good things.
Triple Axe is the story of Jesse Jinx. An adult film star who dreams of getting enough moolah together to finance her own adult film production company. Her plans run into several snags as her fellow film stars  begin turning up dead, brutally strangled with no traceable weapon. That's when she decides to take matters into her own hands and with the help of a few of her peers and a fellow with an unusual collection, she sets out to find the killer and put a stop to the bloodshed.
This novella is a quick and fun satire of the adult film industry, written in a dryly tongue-in-cheek fashion, hilarious at times and horrific at others. Cole's encyclopedic knowledge of film, seemingly all film, is wielded weapon-like throughout the book. This work is one that is sure to propel Cole to a level more than "the guy who writes those odd flash pieces."  He's got much more to offer and I feel that we're juts seeing the tip of his bizarre iceberg of talent.
It's a grossly funny and depraved, I enjoyed it a lot.
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Triple Axe is available from Grindhouse Press

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Jesse Jinx is a porn star. She has dreams of starting her own adult film production company where she and the other actors will be treated more fairly. But there won’t be a production company if she can’t come up with the money—or if there aren’t any porn stars left.

A deranged killer is on the loose, targeting adult entertainers, and choking them to death with a weapon that leaves no trace of itself. When the authorities refuse to help Jesse and her two closest friends, the three women decide to take matters into their own hands . . . with axes. As their colleagues fall one by one, they have a plan to stay alive—and they’re ready to hatchet!

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