Warren Ellis

After losing his partner in a shootout, Detective John Tallow discovers an apartment filled with guns that were each used in an unsolved murder stretching back over 20 years in this new novel from the author of Crooked Little Vein. 30,000 first printing.

Gun Machine

Janice Hopper

Well, this was a wild ride! A serial killer, an apartment full of guns, an almost burned-out detective, and corporate corruption -- what more could you ask?

There was lots of action in this story. Some of it is violent and a bit disturbing. There's a big, exciting climax too. 

I haven't read anything else by Warren Ellis. There's one thing about the plotting I noticed. You can see Ellis shaping the plot pieces and then slotting them into place. It's a little like watching an actor whose technique is visible. You can see how they're using their skills to obtain an effect. But you still enjoy. Similarly, you can see Ellis clicking his plot points into place. And you still enjoy that too. 

Pretty impressive.

Luke Kanies

Fun, fast, interesting read. Twisted and self-referential, just like I like them. Old school and scifi, all at the same time.

Maic D

Michael Cowell

Simon Lund Larsen

B.H. Pitt

Scott Vandehey

Jason Long

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.

Sean McGilvray

This morning Detective John Tallow was bored with his job. Then there was this naked guy with a shotgun, and his partner getting killed, and now Tallow has a real problem: an apartment full of guns. Old guns. Modified guns. Arranged in rows and spirals on the floor and walls. Hundreds of them. Each weapon is tied to a single unsolved murder. Which means Tallow has uncovered two decades' worth of homicides that no one knew to connect and a killer unlike anything that came before. Tallow's bosses don't want him to solve the case. The murderer just wants him to die. But there's a pattern hiding behind the deaths, and if Tallow can figure it out he might even make it out alive.

Gun Machine

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