Product Description

Hilarious, riveting tales from a photo-journalist in his relentless pursuit of fast money, exotic women, and debauchery. Brett Tate and his posse of Russian gazillionaire gangsters blast through Moscow's fast paced nightlife living large, leaving a carnal train wreck in their wake. Devious adventures with bizarre twists. They somehow manage to set new highs and new lows for depravity at the same time. The stories are packaged with screaming funny observation humor and candid to erotic photography as they tear up the town. Like a Beverly Hills mafia, the wealthy businessmen/degenerates spend their days in a sea of top-shelf imported booze, Colombian flake, and a human pyramid of nude models.

The writing captures the pulse and dark comedy fatalism of adrenaline junkies living the mobster lifestyle. Dangers and consequences are ignored. No expense is spared. The attitude, sights and sounds are described with a stunning clarity. Tate is a chest thumping Gladiator one second, self-deprecating and self-destructive the next. Brilliant; and yet clinically insane, written with the same amount of curiosity of the outcome as the reader's. You feel as if Tate is sitting next to you sharing his tales.

The energy and vivid descriptions are brought alive with the crisp images that accompany the story line. Cityscapes, random people mocked, and hundreds of erotic photos from inside the VIP strip clubs and brothels, from the chic nightclubs to the jacuzzi, capturing the face-melting gorgeous women with whom the trio indulge every vice.

But with all the outlandish antics and sex-drenched exploits, the icing on the cake is the cynical wit. Endless biting one-liners and satire. There's enough shock value to offend several generations of women.

Destined to be a cult classic.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #102600 in Books
• Published on: 2009-01-20
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

About the Author
Exotic women. The allure of fast money. I've traveled the far corners of the globe, taking absurd risks with investments and my life, overindulged in every vice, bedded an embarrassingly large number of women, and savored the bounty from stimulating to obscene. For a decade I've authored Tales from the Trenches for a select few friends; penning and photographing the raw, the hilarious, and the erotic to psychotic adventures. After years of provocation, and perhaps against my better judgment, they've convinced me that before I'm in prison or dead, I need to share some of my life's tales as a gambler, an adrenaline junkie and a binge-drinking nymphomaniac, for the world to peer at in awe, envy, or disgust.

The following is a true documentary of a typical four day trip of mayhem and debauchery a few years back. Seeing as there are dirty bankers, gangsters, brothels, drugs, guns, and few laws or morals respected, the participants names and conspicuous details have been changed to avoid an early dirt nap. Nostrovia.

Customer Reviews

A Hilarious Cynical Masterpiece
A mind boggling documentary of some obsessive-compulsive vice hunting gangsters. Specializing in high dollar drunken rampages through upscale Moscow, these alpha warriors have a Bacchanalian propensity for recklessness and risqué sexual adventures. Always in the zone, they bring their A-game and tear it up to astonishing levels. Big money attracts the hotties, and at every turn they're surrounded by a steady stream of high heeled suitors.

The stories are filled with an obscene amount of alcohol, drugs, and steamy encounters with two to four girls at a time. Despite the whole bizarre and tense Moscow gangster lifestyle, what shines and makes the lasting impression is the ridiculously funny social commentary. Tate has a gift for vivid descriptions, and writes with an extraordinarily unique style and hilarious viewpoint. He has a razor sharp eye for detail, and sees the world as a living breathing satire. People are caricatures of themselves (including himself), and events are sarcastically mocked, exaggerated, exploited and ridiculed so ferociously you die laughing every other page.

The writing of each chapter in this debacle builds in a crescendo with a great sense of timing. Each ends with some unexpected hilarious climax that has you shaking your head in disbelief. Reading this is like taking a high-rise roller coast ride.

Escorting the witty and fascinating script, the camera's journalistic eye follows them from nightclubs to strip clubs, with hundreds of funny, interesting, or toe-curling erotic photos.

I spent an entire week reading bits and pieces of High Heals and Dirty Deals, cracking up so hard one time I shot milk out of my nose! Like a bad accident, I kept trying to look away from the book. I'd hide it in a desk drawer...walk around at work in circles, but kept laughing to myself in fits, to the point people questioned my sanity.

I'd grin and sneak back to my desk and secretly pull it out of the drawer, read a random page, and giggle uncontrollably at a random witty quip like some crazy fool. I simply didn't want it to end. When it did, I felt like my best friend had died. When the weekend came, I sat down and re-read the whole damn thing again from start to finish.

Amazing satire and erotic stories.

Uninhibited insanity, great read
I spent an entire day rubbernecking in awe as I speed-read this. It's a hilarious memoir about overindulging maniacs of epic proportions, full of dry wit, outrageous sexual adventure, and stunning erotica photography. I felt inspired, envious, aroused, embarrassed...I felt stomach pains from laughing so hard. Tate is a talented, and creative writer with a vivid imagination. He specializes in hyperactive satire, using colorful observation humor seamlessly mixed into tales of pure, unadulterated debauchery.

When painting a scene, he draws you in with long flowing adjectives and metaphors, scathing funny descriptions of people and events, followed by a build up into the unexpected punch line. I mean LOL funny lines by the hundreds. The story is fast and frantic, outlandish, and brutally honest. His ability to cynically channel the imagery is so real at times, you feel like you're right there, seeing and hearing the characters and situations as they unfold. It really puts you inside the frenzied mind of an adrenaline junkie; not a necessarily safe place, but fascinating and quite a ride.

The lifestyle is heavy in attitude and shock value. Full of anarchy, the guys break numerous laws, corral women by the dozens, and in general live a life of pure havoc. All is done in good fun without any victims, and executed in the midst of doing business deals. The main characters are cocky and aggressive, and yet endearing with their witty repartee and ripping jokes. Their fearless energy and charisma attracts gorgeous women at every turn, and the sex situations are impulsive and graphic. These are the quintessential underworld bad boys out on the hunt; sex and overindulging are a competitive sport. The guys push each other in every scene to the limits with a "let's see if we can top this" approach, and they could care less about any consequences.

What I liked best? The energy, the depraved passion, and the unpredictable chaos; a glimpse into a life few would dare to attempt, and be afraid to even witness. I also love how the story had great segues; repeated variations of jokes from previous chapters like in Seinfeld.

One scene has amazing lust filled conquests, the next is full of ridiculously embarrassing disasters, and they just laugh it off. Tate writes in first and third person, almost from a curiosity standpoint. He`s enjoying the ride; the unfamiliarity of a foreign culture, the balance between risk, hilarious depravity and excesses.

High Heels and Dirty Deals is sort of an upbeat version of Hunter Thompson`s Fear and Loathing, now that I think about it. A very original work, filled with 100s of crisp photographs of the historical Russian monuments, people mocked, and the beautiful women they hook up with. I found myself laughing out loud so often I had to read it in secrecy. Recommended reading technique would be to block off an afternoon, crack a bottle of Chivas, and read it a chapter or two at a time. After you finish the book, let a week go by and re-read it cover to cover. The second read is WAY better than the first. I found numerous things I missed the first round; once I knew his writing, lingo and joke style, I was more in tune with the story.

Funniest Book I've ever read
A fast-paced, and well written memoir that entertains, stimulates and shocks on every page. He's a serious wordsmith in his observation humor, covering each facet of his stories with some outrageous witty anecdotes, slams, and vivid descriptions. Tate could literally write about tying his shoe and make you bust up laughing. The characters are addicted to risk and vice, and push it to the limits with great success, and spectacular humor. Some seriously interesting dudes who don't take themselves or life too seriously, and live for the moment. You can turn to any random page and dive right in and be all over the story.

Although the stories are pack of fearless wealthy dudes living large at a breathtaking pace, Tate's writes the stories with a curiosity, keeping a level of humility and knack for self-deprecation. He writes with complete honesty, and seems to relish giving the painfully explicit details of his own self-destructing and unbelievably embarrassing situations he gets in to achieve today's debauchery. Like winning the Olympic Gold, and then falling drunk off the rewards stand and breaking his neck. The partying and sexual exploits had me laughing on the edge of my seat, yet cringing at the excesses.

While I can't relate to the debauchery, I loved being right there alongside the guys watching it all unfold. I'd give details of one story in particular, but there just no way I could do it justice, it's so hilarious, unexpected and graphic. One of the funniest books I've ever read.