Kill the Dead (Sandman Slim, Book 2)

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Supernatural fantasy's best antihero returns, in the high-octane follow-up to Richard Kadrey's acclaimed SANDMAN SLIM
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. After that, what do you do for an encore You take a lousy job tracking down monsters for money. It's a depressing gig, but it pays for your beer and cigarettes. But in L.A., things can always get worse.

Like when Lucifer comes to town to supervise his movie biography and drafts Stark as his bodyguard. Sandman Slim has to swim with the human and inhuman sharks of L.A.'s underground power elite. That's before the murders start. And before he runs into the Czech porn star who isn't quite what she seems. Even before all those murdered people start coming back from the dead and join a zombie army that will change our world and Stark's forever.

Death bites. Life is worse. All things considered, Hell's not looking so bad.

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Praise for Kill The Dead:

Think Get Shorty meets Hellraiser. San Francisco Chronicle

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 thats actually better than the first book (which was plenty great) and manages to take several leaps forward. io9.com

Whats best displayed by Kill the Dead is Kadreys snappy prose. From the first linesyou know youre in for a Chandler-meets-the-undead treat. Locus

endlessly inventive and high-octaneKadreys an excellent writer whos able to juggle all of it without dropping a single pin. Locus

Everything a sequel should be; that is, more. Theres hardly a moment where youre 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, BoingBoing

James Stark, antihero of 2009s Sandman Slim, returns in this gritty, over-the-top tale of supernatural mayhemProfane, intensely metaphoric language somehow makes self-tortured monster Stark sympathetic and turns a simple story into a powerful noir thriller. Publishers Weekly

Praise for Sandman Slim:

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

Author Bio

New York Times bestselling author Richard Kadrey has published ten novels, including Metrophage and most recently, The Everything Box. Butcher Bird was nominated for the Prix Elkaban in France. A freelance writer and photographer, he lives in San Francisco, California.