Aloha from Hell: A Sandman Slim Novel
&#8220;Richard Kadrey&#8217;s &#8216;Sandman Slim&#8217; series is one of my favorite sets of fantasy books from the last few years&#8230;&#8221; (John Scalzi)&#8220;I hope Kadrey keeps putting out Sandman Slim books for the next 20 years. They&#8217;re that much fun to read.&#8221; (Wired)&#8220;Kadrey&#8217;s prose is raw and gutter-tough, Raymond Chandler meets Lux Interior at the Whisky a Go Go at the end of days.&#8221; (Austin Chronicle)&#8220;This bad-ass supernatural horror stuff is clearly the material he was born to write. Kadrey has an ungodly (literally) amount of fun with Stark&#8217;s wryer-than-wry and violenter-than-violent observations and dialog.&#8221; (Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing)&#8220;Full of action, wit, and suspense, this grabbed a hold of me and wouldn&#8217;t let go. Kadrey is a master storyteller (overused, I know, but very apt) and he will have you rooting for him in Hell and on Earth.&#8221; (Suspense magazine)&#8220;Kadrey knows how to spin a story, his prose is crisp and effortless, and the entertainment value is high.&#8221; (Charles de Lint, Fantasy & Science Fiction on Kill the Dead)&#8220;Compelling...brilliantly metaphoric...profane mixture of noir atmospherics, black humor, and nonstop action will please Kadrey&#8217;s many fans.&#8221; (Publishers Weekly)&#8220;Kadrey&#8217;s stylized treatment of the ubiquitous urban fantasy genre makes it seem fresh&#8221; (Kirkus Reviews)&#8220;The perfect escapist storyline &#8230; side-splittingly funny. &#8230; gruesome slapstick mixed with down-and-dirty Hammett-esque mayhem and double-dealing. &#8230; If you&#8217;ve been hoping someone would bring the full-strength SoCal toxic waste to the urban fantasy game, then Sandman Slim is your poison.&#8221; (io9.com)&#8220;If authors were tarot cards, Richard Kadrey would unarguably be the Hierophant of Paranormal Fantasy.&#8221; (Paul Goat Allen)&#8220;&#8230;endlessly inventive and high-octane&#8230;Kadrey&#8217;s an excellent writer who&#8217;s able to juggle all of it without dropping a single pin.&#8221; (Locus)&#8220;Everything a sequel should be; that is, more. &#8230; There&#8217;s hardly a moment where you&#8217;re not chewing your fingernails to the wrist wondering what happens next. &#8230; Kadrey is a hell of a writer, versatile and seasoned, and these pulpy, dark, ultraviolent novels are his best work yet.&#8221; (Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing)&#8220;James Stark, antihero of 2009&#8217;s Sandman Slim, returns in this gritty, over-the-top tale of supernatural mayhem&#8230;Profane, intensely metaphoric language somehow makes self-tortured monster Stark sympathetic and turns a simple story into a powerful noir thriller.&#8221; (Publishers Weekly on KILL THE DEAD)&#8220;Witty, gritty, over-the-top mayhem to care. If you mixed Jim Butcher with Christopher Moore, forced a kicking and screaming Warren Ellis in after them, and shook well, you&#8217;d get . . . well, I&#8217;d be careful opening the mixer. But the result wouldn&#8217;t be too far away from this.&#8221; (Daytona Beach News)&#8220;Hilarious &#8230; belongs up there with Dresden Files and Felix Castor novels. &#8230; some of the best supernatural buddy comedy ever created. ... This is that rare sequel that&#8217;s actually better than the first book (which was plenty great) and manages to take several leaps forward.&#8221; (io9.com)If you like your horror stories with a little camp, a little quirkiness and a whole lot of blood and gore thenKill The Dead: A Sandman Slim Novelby Richard Kadrey will be right up your alley. (Las Vegas Review Journal)&#8220;Think Get Shorty meets Hellraiser.&#8221; (San Francisco Chronicle)&#8220;If Simon R. Green wrote an episode of Dog the Bounty Hunter, it would read much likeSandman Slim&#150; violent, vivid, non-stop action of the supernatural kind. I couldn&#8217;t put it down.&#8221; (Charlaine Harris)&#8220;Dirty, disgusting, vulgar, violent, poisonously testosterone-driven, so politically incorrect it ought to be prosecuted, and generally all-round offensively in your face. &#8230; I loved it. It&#8217;s amazing.&#8221; (Robin McKinley)&#8220;A sharp-edged urban fantasy, drenched in blood and cynicism, tipping its hat to Sam Peckinpah, Raymond Chandler and the anti-heroes of Hong Kong cinema. Kadrey brings it off through the propulsive force of Stark&#8217;s in-your-face, first-person, present-tense narration. It&#8217;s a bravura performance.&#8221; (San Francisco Chronicle)&#8220;Nicotine and octane in equal parts might come close to the high-energy buzz from Richard Kadrey&#8217;sSandman Slim. Crisp world building, recognizable and fully-realized characters, and a refreshingly unique storytelling style make for an absorbing read.Sandman Slimis my kind of hero.&#8221; (Kim Harrison)&#8220;The most hard-boiled piece of supernatural fiction I&#8217;ve ever had the pleasure of reading. &#8230; all confident and energetic and fresh and angry. I loved this book and all its screwed-up people.&#8221; (Cory Doctorow)&#8220;Kadrey combines humor and horror to create a lively, scary tale of urban warfare with plenty of gory action inKill The Dead.&#8217; (Deseret News)&#8220;His best work yet. . . . Kadrey tells his story in a swirl of tight, darkly intense prose. . . .Sandman Slimis very, very good indeed.&#8221; (SF Site)&#8220;Sandman Slimis one of the best books I have read in a very, very long while. Richard Kadrey is a genius. I read it on the plane ride home and was totally blown away.&#8221; (Holly Black)&#8220;Paced like greased lightning (watch out for friction burns on your turning finger), blend the movie-ish delights of tough guy noir and such smart-mouthgore-fests as &#8220;Reanimator&#8221; and &#8220;Army of Darkness&#8221;, seasoned by soupcons of Gaimanian romanticism and Koontzian sentiment.&#8221; (Booklist)&#8220;Kadrey&#8217;s tale lives on a tightrope, but the author nails the right balance of detective fiction and theological fantasy, seriousness and humor, pathos and absurdity.&#8221; (Lincoln Star Journal)&#8220;Kadrey really is the anti-Twilight. Raw, real, funny, furious, all full of piss and hemoglobin. His third Sandman Slim novel, in which the supernatural anti-hero must go back to Hell to stop a war with Heaven, may be his finest.&#8221; (Fearnet)