Gun Machine

An apartment full of guns. A hundred unsolved murders. An explosive, utterly unique crime novel from world-famous comics writer Warren Ellis.

A magnificently entertaining gun held to the head of the crime thriller genre

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.

If only other police procedurals had half the gumption and imaginative power of this novel

A dazzling oasis in the desert of grimly identical police procedurals

Sick, slick and very funny...[Ellis] doesn't need pictures to create his gripping, grave new world

[Ellis] turns to conventional crime fiction with startling success...powerful writing and vast imagination

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

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.

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

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.