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

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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 <i>Law & Order</i> or <i>CSI</i>, 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

The room is full of guns. Old ones. New ones. Modified ones. Hundreds of them.

This is a collection belonging to someone who's been killing a long time. Secretly. And very, very effectively.

This is the impossible case that New York detective John Tallow has to solve, before the killer catches up with him.

This is GUN MACHINE: a crime novel like none you've read before.

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<p>An apartment full of guns. A hundred unsolved murders. An explosive, utterly unique crime novel from world-famous comics writer Warren Ellis.</p>
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
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An apartment full of guns. A hundred unsolved murders. An explosive, utterly unique crime novel from world-famous comics writer Warren Ellis.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781444730661
Publisert
2014
Utgiver
Vendor
Mulholland Books
Vekt
222 gr
Høyde
197 mm
Bredde
132 mm
Dybde
21 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
320

Forfatter

Om bidragsyterne

Warren Ellis is an award-winning creator of graphic novels whose work includes Fell, 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.

Visit his website at www.warrenellis.com or follow him on Twitter @warrenellis.