Woman Chaser

✍ Scribed by Charles Willeford

• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 113 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Richard Hudson, an inveterate woman-chaser and gifted used car salesman,
possesses a pimp's understanding of the ways in which women (and men)
are most vulnerable - and justifies his seductions with a highly peverse
logic. By day, he works his crooked car lot with much success. By
night, he returns home to a family of misfits: an adoring, ageless
mother; her washed-up husband, an ex-film director who is twenty years
her junior; and a curious teenage stepsister ripe for corruption.

One
day Richard is siezed by a feeling of terror and revulsion; he realises
he's wasting his life in the meaningless pursuit of money. His only
hope, he decides, is to abandon the used-car game and try his hand at
something creative - an ambitious and risk-laden film project that will
"tie up in a single package his reason for existing". The fact that he
has no experience in the arts means little to Richard. "Experts" are
enlisted, and like a ringleader engineering a crime, he moves forward
with a volatile and unyielding energy.

Richard completes his
cherished project. But forces beyond his control swiftly reject and
destroy it. As a result, the enraged and humiliated used-car salesman
goes on a bender for the ages drinking his way through the underbelly of
Los Angeles and exacting a monstrous revenge on all who have crossed
him.