Gun Machine
An apartment full of guns. A hundred unsolved murders. An explosive, utterly unique crime novel from world-famous comics writer Warren Ellis.
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| ISBN-13 |
9781444730647 |
| ISBN-10 |
1444730649 |
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| Stock |
Available |
| Status |
In stock at publisher; ships 7-15 working days |
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| Publisher |
Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint |
Mulholland Books |
| Publication Date |
8 January 2013
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| International Publication Date |
3 January 2013 |
| Publication Country |
 United Kingdom |
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| Format |
Trade Paperback/Paperback |
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| Author(s) |
By Ellis, Warren |
| Category |
Fiction
Crime & Mystery Fiction
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| Interest Age |
All ages |
| Reading Age |
All ages |
| NBS Text |
Crime & Thriller |
| ONIX Text |
General/trade |
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| Number of Pages |
320 |
| Dimensions |
Width: 157mm
Height: 233mm
Spine: 25mm |
| Weight |
420g |
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| Dewey Code |
823.92 |
| Catalogue Code |
295854 |
Description of this Book
Mulholland Books presents...GUN MACHINE This morning Detective John Tallow was bored with his job. Then there was this naked guy with a shotgun, and his partner getting killed, and now Tallow has a real problem: an apartment full of guns. Old guns. Modified guns. Arranged in rows and spirals on the floor and walls. Hundreds of them. Each weapon is tied to a single unsolved murder. Which means Tallow has uncovered two decades' worth of homicides that no one knew to connect and a killer unlike anything that came before. Tallow's bosses don't want him to solve the case. The murderer just wants him to die. But there's a pattern hiding behind the deaths, and if Tallow can figure it out he might even make it out alive.
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Awards & Reviews
| NZ Review |
Praise for Crooked Little Vein -- . 'Completely compulsive, impossible to put down' -- Globe and Mail 'Ellis is a formidable talent whose wit and insight fit perfectly into the crime genre.' -- Los Angeles Times 'Funny, inventive and blithely appalling, this book is Dante on paint fumes.' -- Joss Whedon 'A heart-shredding work of scatological brilliance that gleefully annihilates private-eye tropes and pole-vaults over taste lines' -- Los Angeles Times Book Review 'Ruthless, unforgiving, and oddly, beautifully, bitterly human... Get ready for a wonderful kick in the teeth' -- Brad Meltzer 'Stop it. You're frightening me.' -- William Gibson |
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Author's Bio
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.
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