Gun Machine

Ellis' gritty prose paired with Reg E. Cathey's narration give this whole piece a level of street, humor and realism that makes for an enjoyable listen.

Ellis takes what is on the surface could be an episode of Criminal Minds and infuses it with great banter and a unique take on pathology/mythology. The banter between cops is funny without being campy.

Smart writing. Good story. Wonderful narrator. More by him, please!

near the top besst so far in a long time

Hard to choose just ONE as the whole book was so good really sucked me into listening

No but the performance was great!!

A most EXCELLENT book wish there were more
Thanks for offering this to us listeners

Keep adding more of these great authors

I've listened to many, many audiobooks (I finish two to three audiobooks a month) and this was incredibly well done. I'd put this in the top 25 I've listened to.

I loved the interesting history that's expressed on Manhattan. The actual Gun Machine is pretty neat too.

Loved the gritty style he brings to the book. He may not have a huge difference in voices, but that's not the case with every audiobook narrator anyway. Great voice acting.

A detective lost his partner and now fights through reams of history to solve hundreds of cases that may have been done by one man.

If you like detective novels with a twist (such as the Dresden Files) this is right up your ally.

Gun Machine is an eerie tale of serial murder over several decades, a tale that spins a web of history and police corruption around its protagonist. Warren Ellis is among the smartest and most inventive writers of the new millennium. Here he handles a new genre with his typical ease, with characteristic descriptiveness and intensity. Reg Cathey's gravelly narration is perfect for a gritty noir story like this. If the book has a fault it's that it builds to what feels like something of an abrupt stop at the end, but it'll definitely keep you listening right up to that end.

Tighter and more grounded than his previous novel, Crooked Little Vein, there is still plenty of the Warren Ellis outrageousness we know and love. This is an excellent, quick, fun read. Highly recommended.

The book started out amazingly.Great hook, some tragedy. Solid character building. The second act brought in some wonderful supporting characters and plot twists that only dragged you deeper into the story. The third act took all of that and chucked it in the bin leaving you with a rehashed and somewhat cliched police procedural. Such a let down from an amazing build up. I can not recommend this book because of that third act.

If you're a movie fan, Reg E. Cathey sounds like a dead ringer for Eric Roberts in Pope of Greenwich Village. This is an amazing story, with a perfect marriage of author and narrator. What a great ride.

Pretty darn good, gritty, hardboiled, noir detective story with a hint of scifi. Feels like The Wire meets Se7en, with a little William Gibson on the side, a scene or two evocative of Robocop and Silence of the Lambs, and a history lesson that nods to a Neal Stephenson approach. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and look forward to more from this author.

While the reader's voice was certainly well matched to the "gritty and hard boiled" feel of the novel, the voice characterizations were all too similar and inflected in such a way that I had a hard time differentiating the cast of characters. For the "movie in my head" a Denzel Washington as from Book of Eli or Man on Fire would be perfect in the lead, but the rest of the cast can't all be "the black guy from The Wire" (relax, that's a joke - the reader Reg Cathey is just that). I am just saying that all of the voices sound the same, and you have to pay very close attention to the he-saids to follow some of the dialog. Bronson Pinchot (reader for Matterhorn) on the other hand, for example, disappears into his characters, of many ethnicities and regional dialects, without even a trace of Balki. PLEASE DON'T LET THAT STOP YOU it's definitely a great story and worth a listen or read.

Plenty of blood and graphic violence, if that's not your bag.

Yes. It had twists, turns, doublebacks, and lots of research went into it that he shared without being didactic. The ancient history of Manhattan fit smoothly into the narrative.

Ellis wove new (to me) ideas into the narrative and still was able to keep it naturalistic, unlike his work in other genres.

No. He reminded me a lot of George Guidall, who did excellent work in the first version of American Gods.

I normally listen to books with a fantastical aspect to them, e.g. zombie apocoplyses, space operas, etc., and was expecting a mind-bending story like so many of his others, but I was pleasantly surprised by the lack.

Reg E. Cathey was the perfect narrator for this story. The narrator made Ellis' writing even better.

The @#$% You robot had my sides splitting.

I laughed very much through this book. .

Ellis imagination is twisted and fun. I love his comic's especially Transmetropolitan His novels are just as visually spectacular as any work an artist has done in his funny books. I can't wait till he does more. I also wouldn't mind if he ever finished his New Universal Story..... I know its been ages but damn I need some closure.