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title: "Kill the Dead: A Sandman Slim Novel (Sandman Slim, 2) Paperback – October 7, 2014"
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# Kill the Dead: A Sandman Slim Novel (Sandman Slim, 2) Paperback – October 7, 2014

**Brand:** richard kadrey
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A sequel that outshines its predecessor
  

*by P***I on Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2016*

James Stark, the man who spent 11 years in Hell as Lucifer's favorite assassin, Sandman Slim, is back in the second book of Richard Kadrey's hardboiled-horror-adventure-black comedy series.  Having saved the world once, Stark now has a killer rep among Los Angeles' supernatural crowd, the Sub Rosa, but he's barely scraping by on a government paycheck as a hired killer of demons, vampires and other creatures of the night.Soon, however, his old boss, Lucifer himself, comes callilng, and Stark finds himself in a new job: protecting the Prince of Darkness while he makes a Hollywood biopic.  Meanwhile, members of the Sub Rosa's oldest families start disappearing, Stark loses his government gig, and he meets a world-famous Czech pornstar who is way more than meets the eye.  With the help of his grudging sidekick and disembodied head, Kasabian - along with the few friends he has in the world - Sandman Slim begins to unearth exactly what all of these things have in common, and the answer is far worse than he ever could have anticipated.Unlike many sequels, "Kill the Dead" actually outshines its predecessor.  Kadrey spins a great yarn, and the story never quite sits still.  There are confrontations, plotting, violence, sarcasm, insults and rich description that make putting the book down difficult:"I think the guy took out his spinal fluid and replaced it with tequilla.  He's epically, gorgeously drunk.  If his drunkenness had legs, it would be Alexander the Great and conquer the known world.  Then it would puke for a week into a solid gold toilet it stole from Zeus's guest room."The world of Sandman Slim is rich and compelling, and the author is continuously inventive.  If you liked the first volume, you'll love this one.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Sandman Block Party
  

*by M***E on Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2024*

Loving the action of part human, part angel, all-smart-a$$ enforcer with an arsenal of everything from obsidian knives to hoodoo witch powder. Plus, being able to travel by any shadow or a “borrowed’ sports car is the coolest ever. Sandman Killing zombies in his L.A. hometown was fun to read.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    4.5 stars-Unique combination of a supernatural thriller and a hard-boiled crime novel
  

*by G***G on Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2011*

Lucifer has come to Hollywood as an advisor for a movie about his life that's in production. With all the power struggles going on between the old Sub Rosa families, he hires Stark, a.k.a Sandman Slim, to be his bodyguard. Stark has recently been contracting for the Golden Vigil, a special department of homeland security that's overseen by the angel Aelita and defends against God's enemies on Earth. But between Stark's bad attitude and Aelita's "holier than though" one, that job isn't working out so well. So Stark needs the money. However, as one can imagine, when working for the Devil there's always going to be a catch. In a desperate bid to take over, somebody has set zombies loose in L.A., and Sandman Slim is the only person who can stop them.Mr. Kadrey's take on the Devil makes me think of the old mafia don depicted in gangster movies: a businessman who has aged very well, and who hides cleverness and fearsome power beneath a charming veneer. Lucifer is currently trying to hold on to his throne, but still wants to one day get back at God for the damnation that happened long before mankind became a player in the universal struggle between Heaven and Hell, which in Kadrey's Sandman Slim books, isn't necessarily the same thing as good vs. evil.In Kill the Dead, it's ironic that the harder Stark tries to self-improve -- by not simply killing everything that presents a problem -- the deeper into trouble he gets. He's reminds me a little bit of the guy who represents mayhem in the recent Allstate insurance commercials. No matter what Stark does, calamity follows him. I think the time he spent as an assassin and gladiator in Hell, though, has conditioned him to unconsciously thrive in chaos. Plus, Stark's ultimate goal is to kill Mason, the Sub Rosa magician who murdered Stark's girlfriend. With vengeance as his motivation for existence, it's a given that Stark's life is going to be screwed up.Richard Kadrey won me over as a fan with the first book, Sandman Slim, and I enjoyed Kill the Dead even more, which says a lot because I never had much interest in urban fantasy before. Kadrey has opened this reader's eyes to how much fun this kind of fantasy can be.The Sandman Slim novels are a unique combination of a supernatural thriller and a hard-boiled crime novel. There's a lot of hard drinkin', cigarette smokin', sarcastic street-smart wit, and two-fisted action. Mr. Kadrey's belief that evil is really just the ignorance or carelessness of one's actions, rather than a universal force that opposes good, makes the perfect underlying theme for the SANDMAN SLIM novels. The hostilities between the angels and demons continues, just as it always has, with humanity stuck somewhere in the middle. I anxiously wait to read about the next battle in the third installment of Kadrey's Sandman Slim series

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