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Gun Machine

Written by: Warren Ellis
Narrated by: Reg E. Cathey
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Warren Ellis reimagines New York City as a puzzle with the most dangerous pieces of all: guns.

After a shootout claims the life of his partner in a condemned tenement building on Pearl Street, Detective John Tallow unwittingly stumbles across an apartment stacked high with guns. When examined, each weapon leads to a different, previously unsolved murder. Someone has been killing people for twenty years or more and storing the weapons together for some inexplicable purpose.

Confronted with the sudden emergence of hundreds of unsolved homicides, Tallow soon discovers that he's walked into a veritable deal with the devil. An unholy bargain that has made possible the rise of some of Manhattan's most prominent captains of industry. A hunter who performs his deadly acts as a sacrifice to the old gods of Manhattan, who may, quite simply, be the most prolific murderer in New York City's history.

Warren Ellis's body of work has been championed by Wired for its "merciless action" and "incorruptible bravery," and steadily amassed legions of diehard fans. His newest novel builds on his accomplishments like never before, announcing Ellis as one of today's most daring thriller writers. This is twenty-first century suspense writ large. This is Gun Machine. Mystery Police Procedural Psychological Suspense Thriller & Suspense New York Crime Fiction
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"Warren Ellis's work displays a knack for mad hilarity, merciless action, dark cynicism and incorruptible bravery."—Wired
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great story by an incredible writer. plus I wish reg cathey would narrate my life

just fantastic

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Both the narration and the story had really high points and pretty large low points. The consistency just wasn’t there for me. Overall a worthwhile listen though if you’re into hard boiled detective/ murder stuff.

Hit and miss

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Warren Ellis writes some pretty weird books, and I think the wit in this is defs on par with what I've come to expect. I think the rough, smokey voice of Reg works really well with the main characters and the smokey, grungy experience of a detective novel. I don't agree that he keeps the same tone, I think he's reading the book lol. It's pretty decent imo

Pretty great!

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I love this book. read it before and wanted to listen to it on my way to work. the problem is the narrator continues on with the same inflection is his voice and it makes it difficult to follow along or understand which character is talking. disappointing

great book narrator meh

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