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Book SynopsisAn apartment full of guns. A hundred unsolved murders. An explosive, utterly unique crime novel from world-famous comics writer Warren Ellis.
Trade ReviewA 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 *
