A smart, kick-arse Urban Fantasy from a new master of the genre. THE PERDITION SCORE is the eighth book in the fantastic Sandman Slim series.A smart, kick-arse Urban Fantasy from a new master of the genre. THE PERDITION SCORE is the eighth book in the fantastic Sandman Slim series.Sandman Slim returns in a stunning, high-octane thriller filled with the intense kick-ass action and inventive fantasy that are the hallmarks of New York Times bestselling author Richard Kadrey.The request from Thomas Abbot, the Augur of the Sub Rosa council, couldn’t come at a better time for James Stark, aka Sandman Slim. For a man who’s most recently met Death—and death’s killer—a few months of normal life is more than he can handle. He needs a little action, and now Abbott wants Stark and Candy to investigate the disappearance of a young boy—and help uncover council members who might be tied to Wormwood’s power brokers.Stark’s plans change when he meets a dying angel who gives him a vial of a mysterious black liquid that could be a secret weapon in the ongoing war between angels who want to allow human souls into Heaven and rebel angels willing to die to keep them out. When one of Stark’s closest friends is poisoned with the black liquid, Stark and Candy have to go to the only place where they might find a cure: Hell.But standing in their way are the damned souls who, even after death, still work for Wormwood. The secret deal they’ve struck with the rebel angels is darker than anything Stark has encountered. Not only does the fate of the world hang in the balance, but also the souls of everyone in it. Stark has to find a way to break the stalemate in the angel war, score the Perdition cure for the black poison, and make it back to LA in one piece—where an old enemy waits to finish him once and for all.Praise for Sandman Slim:“The best B movie I’ve read in at least twenty years. An addictively satisfying, deeply amusing, dirty-ass masterpiece, Sandman Slim swerves hell-bent through our culture’s impacted gridlock of genres…it’s like watching Sergio Leone and Clive Barker co-direct from a script by Jim Thompson and S. Clay Wilson.” William Gibson“If Simon R. Green wrote an episode of Dog the Bounty Hunter, it would read much like Sandman Slim – violent, vivid, non-stop action of the supernatural kind. I couldn’t put it down.” Charlaine HarrisA Sandman Slim thriller from the New York Times bestselling master of supernatural noirRichard Kadrey is the New York Times bestselling author of the Sandman Slim supernatural noir books. Sandman Slim was included in Amazon’s ‘100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books to Read in a Lifetime’, and is in development as a feature film. His other books include Hollywood Dead, The Everything Box, Metrophage, and Butcher Bird, and he also writes comics and screenplays. He lives in San Francisco.A Sandman Slim thriller from the New York Times bestselling master of supernatural noir• Fantastic new star in the gritty urban fantasy genre• Sandman Slim was named one of the Top 10 Fantasy books of 2010 by Amazon.com and was listed as one of Barnes and Nobles’ Best Paranomal Fantasy Novels of the Decade• Supported by digital promotion on the Voyager blog, Facebook and twitterCompetition: jim;butcher;ben;aaronovitch;benedict;jacka;kevin;hearne;mike;carey;nicholas;eames;david;wragg;charles;stross;andrew;cartmel;john;scalzi;brandon;sanderson;terry;pratchett;jasper;fforde;paul;cornell;neil;gaiman;john;gwynne;jodi;taylor;james;bennett;cassandra;khaw;alan;moore;andrzej;sapkowski
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