—Booklist on Kill City Blues
“[Kadrey’s] use of arcane lore is more in-depth and profoundly informed than any in urban fantasy. There could be a whole encyclopedia about the magic, monsters, and cosmic geography of Sandman Slim. Like one of his clearest influences, the horror master H. P. Lovecraft, Kadrey rips the skin off the real world, revealing the supernatural nerve endings and metaphysical meat underneath. And his prose couldn’t be more visceral if it were carved into flesh.”
—Entertainment Weekly on The Getaway God
“Six years after stumbling into Sandman Slim’s seedy, seamy world, I’m still hungry to go back every time. To get lost in it. I have yet to be disappointed. But if this is escapism, it’s the most masochistic kind I can imagine.”
—NPR on Killing Pretty
“The book takes Stark to hell and worse, risks the lives of everyone he loves, and features some of the most epic battles ever written by Richard Kadrey, a master of the form. [But] it’s this internal struggle that kept me reading right through to the last page.”
—Cory Doctorow on The Perdition Score
“Kadrey’s Sandman Slim series just keeps getting better, and this ninth installment packs some of the darkest twists and blackest humor yet. . . . With plenty of gruesomely fascinating characters, visceral descriptions and a final shocking showdown, this is a sensational installment to a fiendishly good series.”
—RT Book Reviews on The Kill Society
“Packed with humor, Hollywood Dead is effortlessly entertaining, rewarding, demon-filled fiction that manages to hide a few more serious messages amongst all the fun.”
—Los Angeles Times on Hollywood Dead
“The prose simmers with Kadrey’s characteristic blend of cynicism and absurdist humor, but the nuanced character development and exciting relationship-building make this feel like a brave new direction for the series. This addictive urban fantasy works in its own right—and sets things up for what promises to be one hell of a finale.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Ballistic Kiss
Also by Richard Kadrey
Sandman Slim
Sandman Slim
Kill the Dead
Aloha from Hell
Devil Said Bang
Kill City Blues
The Getaway God
The Perdition Score
The Kill Society
Hollywood Dead
Ballistic Kiss
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Another Coop Heist
The Everything Box
The Wrong Dead Guy
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The Grand Dark
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Metrophage
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Butcher Bird
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Print ISBN: 978-0-06-295157-1
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