'A magnificently entertaining gun held to the head of the crime thriller genre' (
Guardian )
'GUN 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 Sunday )
'If only other police procedurals had half the gumption and imaginative power of this novel.' (
Big Issue )
'A dazzling oasis in the desert of grimly identical police procedurals' (
Financial Times )
'Sick, 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 Times )
'Ellis 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 Today )
'Just 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 )
'Never stops to draw breath. It's a monster of a book, bowel-looseningly scary in places, darkly uproarious in others, and remorseless as the killer who hunts in its pages...particularly good, even by the high standards of a Warren Ellis tale.' (Cory Doctorow,
Boing Boing )
'Hellish fun' (Ian Rankin )
'A mad police procedural just north of the border of dark fantasy. Delightful.' (William Gibson )
'GUN MACHINE never lets go of the reader and never flags in its relentless pace. In the course of 300 tightly wound pages, Ellis unloads a full clip of ideas, black humor, character, and copper-sheathed action scenes. Every sentence is a bullseye.' (Joe Hill )
'Underneath the pyrotechnic prose lies a perfectly paced mystery thriller. Ellis gets it so right.' (Mike Carey )
'Sharp, dangerous, beautifully observed... Some things about Warren Ellis's writing never change, including - I imagine - his ability to make even maniacs worry that they're boringly sane.' (Jon Courtenay Grimwood )
'GUN MACHINE is packing heat: wonderfully demented misfits, killer dialogue, a helluva story. Warren Ellis is a twisted genius and this is his grittiest, sexiest, and best work by far.' (Lauren Beukes )
'GUN MACHINE redraws the crime map of Manhattan; Ellis's bizarre, febrile imagination and mordant wit makes a serial killer thriller for a new century.' (Charles Stross )
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.
