
By Warren Ellis
Warren Ellis reimagines big apple urban as a puzzle with the main risky items of all: GUNS.
After a shootout claims the lifetime of his companion in a condemned tenement development on Pearl road, Detective John Tallow unwittingly stumbles throughout an condo stacked excessive with weapons. whilst tested, every one weapon ends up in a special, formerly unsolved homicide. an individual has been killing humans for 20 years or extra and storing the guns jointly for a few inexplicable purpose.
Confronted with the surprising emergence of 1000s of unsolved homicides, Tallow quickly discovers that he's walked right into a veritable care for the satan. An unholy discount that has made attainable the increase of a few of Manhattan's such a lot renowned captains of undefined. A hunter who plays his lethal acts as a sacrifice to the outdated gods of ny, who may well, conveniently, be the main prolific assassin in big apple City's history.
Warren Ellis's physique of labor has been championed by way of stressed out for its "merciless action" and "incorruptible bravery," and progressively collected legions of diehard lovers. His most recent novel builds on his accomplishments like by no means earlier than, saying Ellis as considered one of today's so much bold mystery writers. this is often twenty-first century suspense writ huge. this is often GUN computing device.