![]() ![]() There’s nothing better than a great exploration of crazy and a righteous human being doing morally questionable (to put it mildly) actions. ![]() For those of you who haven’t picked up the first collection, at the $9.99 price point you owe it to yourself to get caught up. ![]() Kill Or Be Killed has been a pulpy romp, character-driven serial thriller, and a deconstruction of vigilantism. Which makes all the sense considering the reverence this team shows for classic pulp stories. And it also calls back to classic crime stories like Jim Thomspson’s The Killer Inside Me. Or is he a victim of supernatural circumstances beyond his understanding? An unreliable protagonist who is breaking bad harkens back to some recent masterpieces (get the hint?). One of the great pleasures of this book has been seeing these bloody events transpire through the eyes of a psychopath. ![]() Brubaker and Phillips’ lone punisher of evildoers is now having to evolve or get caught…or shot. There’s nothing fun about an endgame where you end up in jail or dead, especially if you believe you’re helping the greater good. Killing and learning how to be good at killing are two different things. A vigilante “hero” goes deeper into the darkness of his own mind and his own needs. With an unreliable narrator and an increasing body count, this is one of their most ambitious stories yet. Kill Or Be Killed is the latest from the superstar crime creators Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips. ![]()
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![]() ![]() But before Strike can question him further, Billy bolts from his office in a panic. While Billy is obviously mentally distressed, and cannot remember many concrete details, there is something sincere about him and his story. When Billy, a troubled young man, comes to private eye Cormoran Strike's office to ask for his help investigating a crime he thinks he witnessed as a child, Strike is left deeply unsettled. ![]() *** The latest book in the thrilling Strike series, TROUBLED BLOOD, is out now! *** 'Blistering piece of crime writing' SUNDAY TIMES 'Come for the twists and turns and stay for the beautifully drawn central relationship'INDEPENDENT 'Outrageously entertaining' FINANCIAL TIMES ![]() ![]() ![]() A brilliant imitation that's occasionally superior to the prototype., Solo never fails to keep the reader on the edge of his chair. a Triumph., Boyd has immersed himself in the character, the author and his oeuvre and come up with an adventure that's triumphantly the equal of the great Bond adventures. ![]() Mission accomplished., The Prose of Boyd Is Frankly Superior to That of Fleming. Solo 's true literary craft lies in the subtlety of its correspondences and also the suspenseful quality that keeps us on our toes until the closing pages. So does the excellent pacing: Solo feels so quick that it could already be a movie., A perfectly judged narrative tempo. Though Boyd's iteration of the character owes something to Graham Greene's moral melancholy, Fleming's Bond remains recognizable. ![]() Boyd has rendered his Bond perfectly., A light, slick, sinuous adventure. Boyd adroitly captures the postcolonial atmosphere of West Africa with a Graham Greene-like eye for detail. An exhilarating tightrope of a tale that's also just retro enough to conjure the original books. ![]() ![]() ![]() April and her friends are amiable goofballs and drawn genuinely for their age and time. “None of us older than twenty-five years old, cruising down Santa Monica Boulevard, planning our press strategy for the announcement of First Contact with a space alien,” says April. After they discover a complex riddle involving the Queen song “Don’t Stop Me Now,” the mystery becomes a quest for April Andy April’s roommate/kind-of-sort-of girlfriend, Maya a scientist named Miranda and April’s new assistant, Robin, to figure out what the Carls are doing here. April’s life is turned upside down when the video goes massively viral and immovable Carls appear in cities around the world. She phones her videographer friend Andy Skampt, who posts on YouTube a funny introduction to the robot she dubs Carl. On her way home late one night, April encounters an armored humanoid figure, which turns out to be alien in nature-“And I don’t mean alien like ‘weird,’" she says. ![]() It’s endearing how fully he occupies his narrator, a 20-something bi artist named April May who is wasting her youth slaving at a Manhattan startup. Luckily, he applies wit, affection, and cultural intelligence to a comic sci-fi novel suitable for adults and mature teens. A young graphic artist inspires worldwide hysteria when she accidentally makes first contact with an alien.įamous multimedia wunderkind Green is brother to that John Green, so no pressure or anything on his debut novel. ![]() |