Kill the Dead: A Sandman Slim Novel

Kill the Dead

A Sandman Slim Novel

By Richard Kadrey
(Harper Voyager, Mass Market Paperback, 9780062017369, 464pp.)

Publication Date: August 2011

Other Editions of This Title: Hardcover, Paperback

Categories: Fantasy - General, General

“The most delightful novel I read last year was the amazing Sandman Slim. The only problem with a book so stunning, original, fast-paced, and funny is that it's a very tough act to follow. Only a truly outstanding writer could give us a sequel twice as good as the original -- action-packed from the first page, dark yet slyly hilarious, thought-provoking and impossible to put down. Fortunately, Kadrey is a master, and Kill the Dead, in which Stark, the half-angel hitman from hell, goes up against angels, devils, federal agents, and a zombie apocalypse in Los Angeles, is a masterpiece!”

-- Carol Schneck, Schuler Books & Music, Okemos, MI

Description

Death bites. Life is worse.

After eleven years of torment, James Stark, a.k.a. Sandman Slim, crawled out of Hell, took bloody revenge for his girlfriend’s murder, and saved the world along the way. Now Lucifer himself comes to town to produce his autobiography, and an unstoppable zombie army menaces the City of Angels.

All things considered, Hell’s not looking so bad.

About the Author

Richard Kadrey has published six novels, including Sandman Slim, Kill the Dead, Butcher Bird, and Metrophage, and more than fifty stories. He has been immortalized as an action figure, and his short story “Goodbye Houston Street, Goodbye,” was nominated for a British Science Fiction Association Award. A freelance writer and photographer, he lives in San Francisco.

Praise For Kill the Dead…

“James Stark, antihero of 2009’s Sandman Slim, returns in this gritty, over-the-top tale of supernatural mayhem…Profane, intensely metaphoric language somehow makes self-tortured monster Stark sympathetic and turns a simple story into a powerful noir thriller.”
-Publishers Weekly on KILL THE DEAD

“Everything a sequel should be; that is, more. … There’s hardly a moment where you’re not chewing your fingernails to the wrist wondering what happens next. … Kadrey is a hell of a writer, versatile and seasoned, and these pulpy, dark, ultraviolent novels are his best work yet.”
-Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing

“Hilarious … belongs up there with Dresden Files and Felix Castor novels. … some of the best supernatural buddy comedy ever created. ... This is that rare sequel that’s actually better than the first book (which was plenty great) and manages to take several leaps forward.”
-io9.com

“What’s best displayed by Kill the Dead is Kadrey’s snappy prose. From the first lines...you know you’re in for a Chandler-meets-the-undead treat.”
-Locus

“Think Get Shorty meets Hellraiser.”
-San Francisco Chronicle

“…endlessly inventive and high-octane…Kadrey’s an excellent writer who’s able to juggle all of it without dropping a single pin.”
-Locus

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