Vroege RecensentenWarren Ellis

World-famous comic writer and tastemaker Warren Ellis reinvents New York City as a puzzle with the most dangerous pieces of all: guns. 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. Someone has been killing people for twenty years or more and storing the weapons together for some inexplicable purpose. Confronted with the sudden emergence of hundreds of unsolved homicides, Tallow soon 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, who may, quite simply, be the most prolific murderer in New York City's history. PRAISE FOR GUN MACHINE "A mad police procedural just north of the border of dark fantasy. Delightful." --- William Gibson, author of Neuromancer, Pattern Recognition and Spook Country "GUN MACHINE redraws the crime map of Manhattan; Ellis's bizarre, febrile imagination and mordant wit makes a serial killer thriller for a new century." --- Charles Stross, author of Rule 34, Accelerando and Singularity Sky "Warren Ellis is one of the greatest writers of my generation not to mention my personal favorite. GUN MACHINE is a perfect example of why. Fiercely entertaining, compellingly crafted, and filled with big ideas and small that make the writer in me growl: damn, I wish I would've thought of that." --- Brian Michael Bendis, writer of The Avengers, Ultimate Spider-Man, and Ultimate X-Men "Warren Ellis's work displays a knack for mad hilarity, merciless action, dark cynicism and incorruptible bravery." --- Wired -- Warren Ellis is the award-winning creator of graphic novels such as Fell, Ministry of Space, Planetary, and Transmetropolitan and the author of the novel Crooked Little Vein. He lives in London.