About this ebook
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.
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.
Ratings and reviews
4.1
19 reviews
Mark Catherwood
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January 24, 2013
Ellis weaves a never uninteresting tale of one standard cop's pursuit of a very non-standard killer. The killer is easily the best thing about this book. His character is as fascinating as the morsels of New York history dished up throughout the story. A good read.
Scott Davis (Ghost)
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February 9, 2013
Others have said it better than me here, so I'll just add my vote to list and say that this was a captivating read and I enjoyed it thoroughly.
Ahmed Shaikh
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August 8, 2014
Would've been better if the protagonist didn't pull theories through osmosis but deduced through scientific investigations. Also tends to bump into major characters. Literally. Nevertheless, a good read.
About the author
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 www.warrenellis.com or follow him on Twitter @warrenellis.
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