REVIEW: 'Backdoor Politics' by C.L. Mustafic

Dec 12, 2017
4 min read

Title: Backdoor Politics

Author: C.L. Mustafic

Published: November 7, 2017

Publisher: ForbiddenFiction - Imprint of Enspire Publishing

Cover Artist: Siol na Tine

Genre: Dark Erotica; Mystery/Thriller; Suspense

Length: 317 Pages

Tags: Gay; MM; May/December; BDSM; D/s; War; CW: Abduction, Dub-Con, Emotional Abuse, Forced Seduction, Gay Bashing, Murder, Necrophilia, Non-Con, Rape, Taboo, Torture, Violence: Various-Extensive; Kink: Bondage, Breathplay, Enema, Flogging, Humiliation, Masochism, Object Penetration, Orgasm Denial, Sadism, Sex Toys, Spanking, Watersports

About Backdoor Politics

Kamal is a by-the-book mercenary and hitman who keeps to himself, dealing with the brutal politics of the Bosnian underworld. He has had very few ties to the world around him since the war that left him broken and betrayed by his lover. An encounter with a fellow mercenary, whose job it is to kidnap the adult son of the only man Kamal ever loved, leads Kamal to do something irrational. In an isolated cabin in the mountains of Bosnia with his hostage, Kamal follows the well laid-out plan of his predecessor, but somewhere along the way things get personal. In Kamal’s care, Zijad becomes more than just an object standing in for his father, but a job is a job and Kamal is a professional. When questions and tensions begin to mount, Kamal begins to put the pieces together for himself, and doesn't like what he finds. Can Kamal get his revenge and keep Zijad or will he have to trade one passion for the other?

5 HEART READ

REVIEW:

I love a novel that completely wraps me up and then lingers so I can’t get it out of my mind. With a dark and disturbing story line and characters who could be your next-door neighbors, C.L. Mustafic’s Backdoor Politics is spine-tinglingly perfect. This one’s a must read for any fan of dark erotica!

Backdoor Politics has an incredible plot which unfolds gradually and is structured to build our anticipation.

There were so many ways the story could go that I truly had no idea what would happen next or how it would end. The suspense is wonderful.

When the contract to capture and torture his ex-lover’s twenty-two year old son falls into his lap, Kamal doesn’t debate what he’ll do for a moment.

This is his story, and C.L. Mustafic brings us inside the mind of one of the most deliciously monstrous characters I can imagine.

While the traumatic experiences of his life have influenced him, deep down in his core Kamal is still human. Yes he has suffered incredible physical and mental trauma, but that’s just the stuff that happened to him. Kamal doesn’t see anything wrong or odd about his actions.

This is truly my favorite character in literature, the dark protagonist who makes no excuses and doesn’t seem to second guess himself. In the depths of his own mind Kamal weighs his choices and ponders his decisions, but he accepts the status quo.

As he calmly washes his face and brushes his teeth the morning he begins the torture, Kamal contemplates having his ex-lover’s son in this position. Torn between fond memories of the boy’s father and the depth of his betrayal Kamal considers this to be, “Either the greatest or worst thing he’d had happen to him.”

Kamal’s ambivalence is chilling and Mustafic doesn’t miss a chance to show us the depths of his crazy.

As the flashback scenes gradually explain the relationships between the characters, Mustafic really gets into Kamal’s mind. She delves deeply into his thought process and shows how close to the surface his emotions are. It was disturbing for me to see how normal he could seem.

Backdoor Politics is a dark and frightening tale and C.L. Mustafic doesn’t pull any punches, either with the characters or the plot. The pacing is perfect, wrapping me up in Kamal’s sadistic mind and building the suspense to the highest level. I’m going to warn you the descriptions of the torture Kamal inflicts are grisly but if you are a fan of dark erotica, then you’ll enjoy this as much as I did!

A copy of Backdoor Politics was provided to Kimmers’ Erotic Book Banter, by ForbiddenFiction, at no cost and with no expectations in return. We offer our fair and honest opinion on behalf of our readers.

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Meet the Author

C.L. Mustafic is a born and bred American mid-westerner who mysteriously ended up living in one of those countries nobody can ever find on the map of Europe. Left with too much time on her hands—let’s be honest here: it was the lack of television channels in her native language–and too many voices in her head trying to fill the silence, she decided to give her life-long dream of writing a novel a shot. So now, between shuttling kids back and forth from various activities and risking her life on the insanely narrow, busy streets of her new hometown, she loses herself in her own made-up world where love always wins.

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