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Kill the Dead

Sandman Slim, Book 2

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Kill the Dead

By: Richard Kadrey
Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
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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, Hell’s not looking so bad.

More mayhem? Try another eerie earful of Sandman Slim.©2010 Richard Kadrey (P)2010 Brilliance Audio, Inc. Contemporary Crime Crime Fiction Fantasy Horror Literature & Fiction Noir Paranormal Paranormal & Urban Urban Scary Fiction Demons

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"Profane, intensely metaphoric language somehow makes self-tortured monster Stark sympathetic and turns a simple story into a powerful noir thriller." ( Publishers Weekly)

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. just gets better and better, can't wait to read the third book in the series. Narrator MacLeod Andrew is fantastic, Richard Kadrey really knows how to keep a story moving thee were NEVER any dull moments. It all ended to soon for me. I hope that Audible will be getting more from this author.

Book 2 in the Sandman Slim series

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I swear I read they are going to turn this series into a movie and its going to be a shame to not hear Macleod Andrews voice when it come to the characters I've grown to love and hate

kick ass

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Excellent from start to finish. second book in the series, just as good as the first book.

Excellent Book

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Start with Sandman Slim, but then keep going, listen to Kill the Dead. And then Aloha From Hell, and then Devil Said Bang, and then... on and on as long as Kadrey will keep up the good work!!

Kadrey's writing is both fast paced and entertaining, full of analogies and bizarre imagery. He doesn't hit any joke to hard, he just makes it and moves right along.

I really enjoy the narrator, MacLeod Andrews, as well. He is right on pitch!

My New Favorite Author

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MacLeod Andrews is always an entertaining narrator, effectively conveying the feeling of the story. When this becomes a movie, he should be the lead role, or any main character.

Best narrated series out there.

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