Kill the Dead

, #2

by

Listening Length 13 hours and 20 minutes

Published 2010 by Brilliance Audio.

(4 reviews)

James Stark, a.k.a. Sandman Slim, crawled out of Hell, took bloody revenge for his girlfriend’s murder, and saved the world along the way. After that, what do you do for an encore? You take a lousy job tracking down monsters for money. It’s a depressing gig, but it pays for your beer and cigarettes. But in L.A., things can always get worse.

Like when Lucifer comes to town to supervise his movie biography and drafts Stark as his bodyguard. Sandman Slim has to swim with the human and inhuman sharks of L.A.’s underground power elite. That’s before the murders start. And before he runs into the Czech porn star who isn’t quite what she seems. Even before all those murdered people start coming back from the dead and join a zombie army that will change our world and Stark’s forever.

Death bites. Life is worse. All things considered, …

2 editions

reviewed Kill the dead by Richard Kadrey

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Kill the Dead, Richard Kadrey's sequel to Sandman Slim, is enjoyably wacky. The plot was a bit confusing at spots, but the characters are engaging and I appreciated the humor. This novel is so far out of my usual genre that I consider it a conundrum to rate; I don't always read novels that end with a zombie apocalypse, but when I do, I like those stories to be populated with some people I can care about, and I find that I am hooked on the adventures of James Stark, AKA Sandman Slim. And, by the way, Kill the Dead is better than the first book book of this series, which is intriguing, as well.

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Subjects

  • Devil
  • Paranormal fiction
  • Fiction
  • Wizards
  • Supernatural
  • Zombies
  • Bodyguards
  • Fiction, fantasy, general
  • Fiction, crime