KILL CITY BLUES (Sandman Slim 5)

KILL CITY BLUES is the 5th title in the fabulously edgy urban fantasy Sandman Slim series from New York Times bestselling author Richard Kadrey. The series features a magician named Stark who's been murdered, then forced to spend eleven years in Hell working as a hit man for various warring factions down under. But what do you do after you've crawled out of Hell to wreak bloody revenge?

In KILL CITY BLUES, James Stark, aka Sandman Slim, has managed to get out of Hell, renounce his title as the new Lucifer, and settle back into life in LA. But he also lost the Qomrama Om Ya, an all-powerful weapon from the banished older gods. Older gods who are returning, and searching for their lost power.

The hunt leads Stark to an abandoned shopping mall - a multi-story copy of LA - infested with Lurkers and wretched bottom-feeding Sub Rosa families, squatters who have formed tight tribes to guard their tiny patches of this fake LA. Somewhere in this kill zone is a dead man with the answers Stark needs. All Stark has to do is find the dead man, recover the artifact, and outwit and outrun the angry old gods - and a few killers - on his tail. But not even Sandman Slim is infallible, and any mistakes will cost him dearly.

"These novels are incredibly hard-boiled, and the endings are not Happily-Ever-After. But Kadrey's a fascinating writer and no matter how vicious Sandman Slim gets, we're rooting for him." - Charlaine Harris

"Richard Kadrey continues to knock them way the hell out of the park." - Cory Doctorow

Richard Kadrey has published eight novels and over fifty short stories.