The Fuck Business

“As the title suggests, The Fuck Business is a hard-boiled dirty book about coming of age in Boston’s long-gone Combat Zone. But unlike most memoirists of the underworld, Michael Troy has genuine literary chops. He has seen the sex trades from all angles, so even his sharpest insights and most harrowing stories are told with generosity, humility, and gentle humor. Years from now, historians will be reading this memoir to find out what ‘The Life’ was really like from a master of its many arts.”

—Debby Applegate, Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age