Publisher Description

The room is full of guns. Old ones. New ones. Modified ones. Hundreds of them. It's the collection of someone who's been killing a long time. Secretly. And very, very effectively. This is the impossible case that New York detective John Tallow has to solve... before the killer catches up with him. This is Gun Machine: a crime novel like none you've read before.

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A unique crime novel from the world famous comics writer, Warren Ellis. Ellis's graphic novels has sold more than 100,000 copies in the UK, and the 3rd Iron Man film is based on his stories.

Author Biography

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 or follow him on Twitter @warrenellis.

Review

A magnificently entertaining gun held to the head of the crime thriller genre. - GuardianGun Machine sees Ellis grab hold of the mainstream by its windpipe and demand acceptance; a perfectly flawless crime book with a feral glint in its eye. - Independent on SundayIf only other police procedurals had half the gumption and imaginative power of this novel. - Big IssueA dazzling oasis in the desert of grimly identical police procedurals. - Financial TimesSick, slick and very funny...[Ellis] doesn't need pictures to create his gripping, grave new world. - Daily Telegraph[Ellis] turns to conventional crime fiction with startling success...powerful writing and vast imagination. - The TimesEllis tackles the police procedural, although it's bloodier and more intriguing than any episode of Law & Order or CSI, and arms it with gallows humor, high-tension action scenes and an unlikely hero. - USA TodayJust about everything in Gun Machine, Warren Ellis's dark but pleasingly quirky crime thriller, is a little bit off, not quite what you'd expect...In his way Tallow is almost as weird as the hunter, and yet he's also oddly endearing, so single-minded you can't help rooting for him. - New York Times

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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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The room is full of guns. Old ones. New ones. Modified ones. Hundreds of them. It's the collection of someone who's been killing a long time. Secretly. And very, very effectively. This is the impossible case that New York detective John Tallow has to solve... before the killer catches up with him . This is Gun Machine : a crime novel like none you've read before.

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Sick, slick and very funny...[Ellis] doesn't need pictures to create his gripping, grave new world

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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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Warren Ellis is a legendary figure in the comics world.

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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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