Book description
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. “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 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
“…endlessly inventive and high-octane…Kadrey's an excellent writer who's
able to juggle all of it without dropping a single pin.” Locus
“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, BoingBoing
“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 Richard Kadrey has published five novels, including Sandman
Slim, 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.
