Gun Machine [Paperback]

The bestselling thriller from a seriously good writer with a seriously wicked imagination (New York Times Book Review).

After a shootout claims the life of his partner in a condemned tenement building on Pearl Street, Detective John Tallow unwittingly stumbles across an apartment stacked high with guns. When examined, each weapon leads to a different, previously unsolved murder.

Confronted with the sudden emergence of hundreds of unsolved homicides, Tallow discovers that he's walked into a veritable deal with the devil. An unholy bargain that has made possible the rise of some of Manhattan's most prominent captains of industry. A hunter who performs his deadly acts as a sacrifice to the old gods of Manhattan and who may, quite simply, be the most prolific murderer in New York City's history.Warren Ellis is the award-winning creator of graphic novels such asFell,Ministry of Space,Planetary, andTransmetropolitanand the author of the novelCrooked Little Vein. His graphic novelREDwas adapted into the #1 hit film of the same name starring Bruce Willis and Helen Mirren. He lives in London. Warren Ellis has a terrific way with words...vivid [with] fully fleshed characters...a seriously good writer with a seriously wicked imagination. Marilyn Stasio,New York Times Book Review GUN MACHINE has a bunch of Ellis' signature gestures: characters with resonant names or no names at all, nightmarish near-future (and recent-past) gizmos, constant and gleeful vulgarity...The brutal cat-and-mouse game between Tallow and the killer suggests that the chaos of human malice can gum up even law enforcement's most elegant systems. More deeply, though, GUN MACHINE is about the ways the grimmer parts of America's history can ooze into the present day, and in particular about the country's deep, horrible connection to firearms. Douglas Wolk,Los Angeles Times A pleasingly quil3‚