Jimmy Dot Circus will keep you looking. There is no way a movie could do justice to the personalities justice in this book. In this form though you are constantly engaged with who is who and who does what.

This novel kind of reads like a graphic novel only mentally; does that make sense? Now that I know there was a prior novel I will have to go find that I guess.

VEGAS TABLOID is the third book of the Las Vegas trilogy by author P Moss, and is a story of Jimmy Dot, the resident entertainer at The Fabulous, a seventy-seven story hotel/casino on the Las Vegas Strip.

Jimmy, along with his “Jimmy Dot Circus”(including Dr. Zazzo, Poontang Johnson, Jenn O. Cide, and Sparkle Short) are well known and in-demand performers known for their on and off stage antics.

Bill Revson, who is in the White Bar at the hotel, is a former research chemist at at EcoGreen, a company who is soon to release a drug that cures the common cold, and he begins a conversation with a man who introduces himself as Owen Howard, a reporter on location to investigate rumors of sightings of Preston Bond, a long time missing and presumed dead movie star, reportedly living underground at the hotel. Revson tries to interest Howard regarding the new drug, claiming the side effects include pancreatic cancer, which has been hidden by the manufacturer CEO Randy Leeds, who’s pulled strings to have it approved for early release after the FDA fast-tracked the process for approval.

Jenny is Jimmy’s estranged wife, who’s left Jimmy after he inexplicably signed a long-term contract to remain at The Fabulous, even though he hates the man Fuller that he works for, and it seems that Fuller has blackmailed him into signing the contract for unknown reasons.

Jimmy is despondent over the loss of Jenny, and reaches an all-time low until he comes up with an idea that might extricate him from his situation and possibly bring Jenny back. Several snags come up to make his freedom and happiness seem nothing more than a pipe dream, but Jimmy keeps at it with the aid of his friends.

Somewhat of a departure from the usual Vegas fiction novel, VEGAS TABLOID is an action packed zany novel featuring a cadre of castoffs taken in by Jimmy, and their exploits are at times hilarious, although other times plain disgusting in a Johnny Knoxville “Jack Ass” vein.

Sleazy pulp fiction fans would probably find this up their alley, although others might find some of it extremely offensive, so enter at your own risk.

3 stars.

This book reads like a movie. It was like a movie was going on in my head while reading. The cast of characters, let by a con man is something else. i have never read about characters such as these, but they are right where they belong, in this novel. And that is what makes the novel work. it is crazy and will make you say "really???" to some situations in the book, but it works. It works to the point you will not want to put this book down until the last page. It pulls you in and does not let you go. it is easy to read and well written. Thanks to NetGalley, the author and the publisher for the ARC of this book in return for my honest review.