Gun Machine

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