SANDMAN SLIM is on sale now.
Life sucks, and then you die. Or in James Starks’s case, you spend eleven years in Hell as a hitman before finally escaping, only to land back in the hell-on-earth that is Los Angeles
Now Stark’s back, and ready for revenge. And absolution, and maybe even love. But first and foremost, getting the bastards who killed him in the first place. But when his first stop saddles him with an abusive talking head, Stark discovers that the road to absolution and revenge is much longer than you’d expect, and both Heaven and Hell have their own ideas for his future...
Richard Kadrey has created a supernatural anti-hero for our times.
Here is just some of the praise he’s received:
“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
"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
"Nicotine and octane in equal parts might come close to the high-energy buzz from Richard Kadrey’s SANDMAN SLIM. Crisp world building, recognizable and fully-realized characters, and a refreshingly unique storytelling style make for an absorbing read. Sandman Slim is my kind of hero."
— Kim Harrison
"The most hard-boiled piece of supernatural fiction I've ever had the pleasure of reading. ... I loved this book and all its screwed-up people."
-- Cory Doctorow
Wow, it sounds so good!
Posted by: Wendy | July 24, 2009 at 09:23 AM
Just got my copy from Amazon last night. So far it lives up to the hype.
Posted by: jkazimer | July 24, 2009 at 11:36 AM