The "bad boy of Australian crime fiction" himself, A.B. Patterson, adapts Nathan Hill's cult classic independent film, Jasper: The Gloves Are Off, into a wild and raunchy novelization. Jasper is the proverbial private eye looking for that one last gig. When he's hired to track down the daughter of a prostitute, he gets into a world of hurt. The many women he encounters along the way both alleviate and sometimes contribute to that hurt. Compared to a cross between Henry Miller and Ross MacDonald, A.B. Patterson's blue prose will have you laughing and longing for the days when a scoundrel could be a scoundrel without New Puritans jumping down his throat for doing nothing more than living his life and being free!