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  • Kill the Dead

  • Sandman Slim, Book 2
  • By: Richard Kadrey
  • Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
  • Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (3,480 ratings)

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Kill the Dead

By: Richard Kadrey
Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
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James Stark, a.k.a. Sandman Slim, crawled out of Hell, took bloody revenge for his girlfriend’s murder, and saved the world along the way. After that, what do you do for an encore? You take a lousy job tracking down monsters for money. It’s a depressing gig, but it pays for your beer and cigarettes. But in L.A., things can always get worse.

Like when Lucifer comes to town to supervise his movie biography and drafts Stark as his bodyguard. Sandman Slim has to swim with the human and inhuman sharks of L.A.’s underground power elite. That’s before the murders start. And before he runs into the Czech porn star who isn’t quite what she seems. Even before all those murdered people start coming back from the dead and join a zombie army that will change our world and Stark’s forever.

Death bites. Life is worse. All things considered, Hell’s not looking so bad.

More mayhem? Try another eerie earful of Sandman Slim.
©2010 Richard Kadrey (P)2010 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
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Critic reviews

"Profane, intensely metaphoric language somehow makes self-tortured monster Stark sympathetic and turns a simple story into a powerful noir thriller." ( Publishers Weekly)

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Book 2 in the Sandman Slim series

. just gets better and better, can't wait to read the third book in the series. Narrator MacLeod Andrew is fantastic, Richard Kadrey really knows how to keep a story moving thee were NEVER any dull moments. It all ended to soon for me. I hope that Audible will be getting more from this author.

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My New Favorite Author

Start with Sandman Slim, but then keep going, listen to Kill the Dead. And then Aloha From Hell, and then Devil Said Bang, and then... on and on as long as Kadrey will keep up the good work!!

Kadrey's writing is both fast paced and entertaining, full of analogies and bizarre imagery. He doesn't hit any joke to hard, he just makes it and moves right along.

I really enjoy the narrator, MacLeod Andrews, as well. He is right on pitch!

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Best narrated series out there.

MacLeod Andrews is always an entertaining narrator, effectively conveying the feeling of the story. When this becomes a movie, he should be the lead role, or any main character.

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Not he best in the series but still good.

What about MacLeod Andrews’s performance did you like?

The narration is awesome. Macleod does a great job with all of the different characters voices. You have everything from normal people to Satin himself to angels, demons, and everything in-between. Great narration.

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kick ass

I swear I read they are going to turn this series into a movie and its going to be a shame to not hear Macleod Andrews voice when it come to the characters I've grown to love and hate

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Excellent Book

Excellent from start to finish. second book in the series, just as good as the first book.

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Really gritty & tons of fun.

Who ever said that sequels can't deliver? This one did and then some. Fantastic narrator as well!!

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well done

it's an interesting ride to say the least! a great addition to the series for sure.

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Sam Spade meets Supernatural

excellent narration with hard hitting action that doesn't let up and doesn't bore at all

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I loved this as a book and now as audio

This series was incredible to read but this narrator is spot on for this story.

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