Mississippi Hustler

by Rod Bellamy

Unwanted and abandoned by his Mississippi River plantation-owning daddy, young Jeff got by as best he could in a torrid world of prostitution and vice where the whole neighborhood used him as a cheap sex-toy. And then, out of the blue, came an airline ticket to distant Hawaii, where his wealthy daddy enjoyed a decadent high-life of unbridled lust. Was this his father finally showing him he cared…? There he met Mohammed — a man who seemed to appreciate him. But that was when troubles really began. Twisted desires and murderous jealousy put his very life in jeopardy — could young Mississippi Hustler survive and find true love?

Genres: Historical Fiction, Gay, Erotica

320 pages, Paperback

First published August 8, 2014

About the author

Rod Bellamy was born in a suburb of Fort Myers, FL. Son of a military father, he, his two brothers, and their mother moved restlessly about the United States. In every place he gained valuable insights to many different cultures. Bellamy has contributed to several anthologies of gay writing over the years under several names. He met and later married his partner of several years in Vallejo, CA before they upped and crossed the Pacific to settle in Hawaii, whose islands he’d never gotten out of his bones.

Reviews

[Roger Kean · Rating 5 out of 5]

Pulp fiction is an almost forgotten genre in science-fiction and crime-fiction, but among the reading gay community it seems to be increasingly popular again. All those old late 1950s and 1960s titles. In this rip-roaring tale, Rod Bellamy has updated the themes while placing it at the end of the era. And the gloriously cheesy period cover says it all perfectly. This is no short read, either; our hero has to endure just about everything a wicked-bad world can throw at him, but his bright optimism shines through. Revenge and redemption make for a satisfying conclusion.

[Preston · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the most fun I ever had reading erotica. It is more of a hybrid of gay fiction with a real plot and erotica with real sex. In reading the book anytime you think it might be "over the top" or perhaps far fetched remember this is Pulp Fiction based on gay story styles of the late 1960s.

In this pulp fiction or gay fiction creation, Rod Bellamy adds some intellect to the old one-handed reading tradition.Not only is there a plot but after all Jeff goes through with his body being used as a rough-sex object by every guy from Mississippi to Maui there is finally a real romance and a love story that sizzles with sexual excitement.

But there is more, Rod has also woven a complex plot into the Hawaiian paradise. With the help of an unusual geological formation, a thrilling though quite perilous ending brings everything and everyone together for a climax that might set Jeff down in the lap of luxury or give him a nasty fall depending on which way the wind blows.

They just don't write Pulp Fiction anymore except it seems old Rod had one last story in him. Or perhaps we can hope this is a best seller and he is lured back to the old Smith Corona™ manual typewriter and knocks out another novel of sex obsessed gay men and their daring do.

For those who might be having a hard time conceptualizing the Circle Jade it is a cylinder with the apartments (condos now) being in the 'walls' of the cylinder as can be seen in these two photos I found by Googling it.

Outside the cylinder: Inside of cylinder:

[Rick · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mississippi Hustler is a lurid tour de force! Jeff, our hero, falls prey to the very plot device that made pulp action adventures so intoxicating- if the narrative slows or the plot stalls out pile the grief on the protagonist and Rod Bellamy never stops piling on the grief. If you think the character's had enough- the answer is to pile on even more grief. If the hero needs a breath of fresh air, a respite - that just means it is time to pile on some more grief. Mississippi Hustler is filled with chapter after chapter of unrelenting cum filled sex and nearly torturous hardship after hardship. What keeps our hero sane, other than the brief vacation provided by leaving New Orleans for Hawaii, when almost anyone else would have succumbed to some sort of queer marriage of the Stockholm Syndrome and Post-Traumatic-Stress-Disorder is his joyfully, plucky attitude of optimism that maintains a belief that things are going to start turning around any moment now. And when things do (eventually) start turning around for our youthful hero, danger (and still more grief) lies just under the surface. The era of pulp fiction played with exploitation and cliche as a fast track to making a quick buck, the novel plays fast and loose with the conventions but never strays too far afield from the roots from which it sprung - making this book enormously enjoyable. Mississippi Hustler proves that one-handed reading has a new authority and his name is Rod Bellamy!

[Monika · Rating 5 out of 5]

After having read Rick's absolutely spot on review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... of Mississippi Hustler by Rod Bellamy I was at a loss as to what more I could add to get readers curious and interested in reading it.

These are a few of my thoughts on Mississippi Hustler.

I don't think I've read anything like it. I didn't know if I should laugh or cry. Laugh because how much misfortune can one character take, if it could go wrong it did. Cry because I loved Jeff and didn't want any of it to happen to him but that would have made this a completely different type of read and in my opinion it's perfect the way it is. Well, maybe a little less sex would have been good? but then again maybe not. ;)

It's trashy, very smutty and well worth the read!

[L · Rating 1 out of 5]

"Gay Pulp", "All he craved was love... what he got was sex" and the cover were all it took for me to buy that book. It is so over-the-top.
I was expecting an adventure book à la Indiana Jones with some silly sex scenes. I was expecting fun. And there is absolutely no adventure and no fun in it.
If you love reading rape with ever growing tools, you'll be delighted. It is not somethnig that I enjoy reading outside Sade, because there is a philosophy behing it. Here, there is nothing.
When the love story arrives, it is boring beyond mesure. Really.
The prose is not interresting but there is a Grand Mystery. Why Chapter 0 is written with an "I" when all others chapters use "He" ?

[Eli Sanders · Rating 4 out of 5]

I had a pulp fiction collecting phase. It's ridiculous, goofy, and unapologetically horny. Don't read pulp fiction if you want things pc all the time. Gets the job done...which is the point. 😂