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Gun Machine

ebook / ISBN-13: 9781444730654

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Genre: Fiction & Related Items / Crime & Mystery

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This morning Detective John Tallow was bored with his job.
Then there was this naked guy with a shotgun, and his partner getting killed, and now Tallow has a real problem: an apartment full of guns. Old guns. Modified guns. Arranged in rows and spirals on the floor and walls. Hundreds of them.
Each weapon is tied to a single unsolved murder. Which means Tallow has uncovered two decades’ worth of homicides that no one knew to connect and a killer unlike anything that came before.
Tallow’s bosses don’t want him to solve the case. The murderer just wants him to die. But there’s a pattern hiding behind the deaths, and if Tallow can figure it out he might even make it out alive.

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Hellish fun
Ian Rankin
A mad police procedural just north of the border of dark fantasy. Delightful.
William Gibson
GUN MACHINE never lets go of the reader and never flags in its relentless pace. In the course of 300 tightly wound pages, Ellis unloads a full clip of ideas, black humor, character, and copper-sheathed action scenes. Every sentence is a bullseye.
Joe Hill
Underneath the pyrotechnic prose lies a perfectly paced mystery thriller. Ellis gets it so right.
Mike Carey
Sharp, dangerous, beautifully observed... Some things about Warren Ellis's writing never change, including - I imagine - his ability to make even maniacs worry that they're boringly sane.
Jon Courtenay Grimwood
GUN MACHINE is packing heat: wonderfully demented misfits, killer dialogue, a helluva story. Warren Ellis is a twisted genius and this is his grittiest, sexiest, and best work by far.
Lauren Beukes
GUN MACHINE redraws the crime map of Manhattan; Ellis's bizarre, febrile imagination and mordant wit makes a serial killer thriller for a new century.
Charles Stross
A magnificently entertaining gun held to the head of the crime thriller genre
Guardian
GUN MACHINE sees Ellis grab hold of the mainstream by its windpipe and demand acceptance; a perfectly flawless crime book with a feral glint in its eye.
Independent on Sunday
If only other police procedurals had half the gumption and imaginative power of this novel
Big Issue
A dazzling oasis in the desert of grimly identical police procedurals
Financial Times
Sick, slick and very funny...[Ellis] doesn't need pictures to create his gripping, grave new world
Daily Telegraph
[Ellis] turns to conventional crime fiction with startling success...powerful writing and vast imagination
The Times
Ellis tackles the police procedural, although it's bloodier and more intriguing than any episode of Law & Order or CSI, and arms it with gallows humor, high-tension action scenes and an unlikely hero
USA Today
Just about everything in GUN MACHINE, Warren Ellis's dark but pleasingly quirky crime thriller, is a little bit off, not quite what you'd expect...In his way Tallow is almost as weird as the hunter, and yet he's also oddly endearing, so single-minded you can't help rooting for him.
New York Times
Never stops to draw breath. It's a monster of a book, bowel-looseningly scary in places, darkly uproarious in others, and remorseless as the killer who hunts in its pages...particularly good, even by the high standards of a Warren Ellis tale
Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing