Kill City Blues: A Sandman Slim thriller from the New York Times bestselling master of supernatural noir (Sandman Slim, Book 5) - Hardcover

Kadrey, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0007483864 ISBN 13: 9780007483860

Publisher: Harper Voyager, 2013

Synopsis

A smart, kick-arse Urban Fantasy from a new master of the genre. Kill City Blues is the fifth book in the fantastic Sandman Slim series.

James Stark, aka Sandman Slim, has managed to get out of Hell – again – renounce his title as the new Lucifer, and settle back into life in LA. But he's not out of trouble yet. Somewhere along the way he misplaced a weapon from the banished older gods who now want it back.

The hunt leads Stark to an abandoned shopping mall ― a multi-storey copy of LA ― infested with Lurkers and bottom-feeding Sub Rosa families, squatters who have formed tight tribes to guard their tiny patches of territory. Somewhere in the kill zone of the former mall is a dead man with the answers Stark needs.

All Stark has to do is find the dead man, get back out alive, and outrun some angry old gods ― with a few killers on his tail.

About this title

Review:

Praise for Sandman Slim:

“The best B movie I’ve read in at least twenty years. An addictively satisfying, deeply amusing, dirty-ass masterpiece, Sandman Slim swerves hell-bent through our culture’s impacted gridlock of genres...it’s like watching Sergio Leone and Clive Barker co-direct from a script by Jim Thompson and S. Clay Wilson.” William Gibson

“If Simon R. Green wrote an episode of Dog the Bounty Hunter, it would read much like Sandman Slim – violent, vivid, non-stop action of the supernatural kind. I couldn’t put it down.” Charlaine Harris

From the Back Cover:

Another day, another apocalypse

James Stark, aka Sandman Slim, has managed to escape Hell, renounce his title as Lucifer, and return to life in L.A. But he also lost the Qomrama Om Ya, an all-powerful weapon from the banished elder gods who are returning and searching for their lost power.

The hunt leads Stark to an abandoned shopping mall--a global shopping paradise infested with Lurkers and wretched bottom-feeding Sub Rosa families. Somewhere in this kill zone is a dead man with the answers Stark needs. All Stark has to do is find the dead man, recover the artifact, and outwit and outrun the angry gods--and natural-born killers--on his tail. But not even Sandman Slim is infallible, and any mistakes will cost him dearly.

You can enter, but can you leave?

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Voyager
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0007483864
• ISBN 13: 9780007483860
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 400