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An explosive, utterly unique crime novel from world-famous comics writer Warren Ellis. An apartment full of guns. A hundred unsolved murders. Mulholland Books presents... GUN MACHINE

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.

About the Author

Warren Ellis is an award-winning creator of graphic novels whose work includes Ministry Of Space, Planetary, Transmetropolitan and Red, which was adapted into a film starring Bruce Willis, and the author of the novel Crooked Little Vein. He has also written for many of Marvel Comics' top series including The Avengers, Iron Man and the X-MEN. He lives in Southend with his family.

'A mad police procedural just north of the border of dark fantasy. Delightful.' [William Gibson]'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]'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 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]'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]

ISBN: 9781444730647
ISBN-10: 1444730649
Audience: General
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 320
Published: 3rd January 2013
Dimensions (cm): 23.3 x 15.7  x 2.4
Weight (kg): 0.42