Killing Pretty
Richard
Kadrey
Harper
Voyager, Jul 28 2015, $25.99
ISBN
9780062373106
At the video store where he works Nephilim James “Sandman Slim”
Stark ironically prays for a purebred human case like following a cheating
spouse after some of his more recent encounters with Old Gods and a fragment of
a God, and a gig as Lucifer. Many of the
survivors of his inquiries want him dead after partaking in the immense
pleasure of an eternity of torturing him.
Slim also struggles with the physically changed Candy who insists she is
Chihiro.
His P.I. boss Julie Sola prefers using the Los Angeles-based
private investigator’s special talent as a hybrid human-angel on special
inquiries. Someone with extraordinary
skills dumps Death inside the body of a mortal before removing the human host’s
heart; leaving the man and Death dead.
Now no one dies; so Sola assigns Stark to find and capture Death’s
killer with a prayer that this culprit can return order (meaning death to the
human masses) to the universe.
The seventh Sandman Slim irreverent amusing urban fantasy (see The Getaway God,
Kill City Blues and Devil Said Bang) is a much less perilous affair (for Slim)
than usual as this time the existence of the universe is not at stake though
order on a Malthus level is. Fast-paced
as always, Stark and his allies (once again very loose definition as he
believes the word team contains the letter I since he does not play well with
others) hunt for a predator in this low-key entry.
Harriet Klausner
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