Kill City Blues (Sandman Slim, #5)

by Richard Kadrey

A smart, kick-arse Urban Fantasy from a new master of the genre. Kill City Blues is the fifth book in the fantastic Sandman Slim series.

James Stark, aka Sandman Slim, has managed to get out of Hell – again – renounce his title as the new Lucifer, and settle back into life in LA. But he's not out of trouble yet. Somewhere along the way he misplaced a weapon from the banished older gods who now want it back.

The hunt leads Stark to an abandoned shopping mall — a multi-storey copy of LA — infested with Lurkers and bottom-feeding Sub Rosa families, squatters who have formed tight tribes to guard their tiny patches of territory. Somewhere in the kill zone of the former mall is a dead man with the answers Stark needs.

All Stark has to do is find the dead man, get back out alive, and outrun some angry old gods — with a few killers on his tail.

• ISBN13: 9780007483860
• Publish Date: 1 August 2013 (first published 30 July 2013)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 31 October 2014
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Imprint: HarperVoyager
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 400
• Language: English
• URL: http://harpercollins.co.uk

Reviews

[wyvernfriend]

3.5 rather than 4 really.

Sandman Slim is out of the job of Lucifer, he's left that to another sucker. He's still living in the palatial hotel suite for Lucifer, his relationship with Candy is still complicated. Then someone comes and tries to kill him while he's in a coffee shop with Samael trying to update their Wikipedia pages.

It's light-hearted fun, with a lot of killing.