Gun Machine

Warren Ellis (geb. 1968) zählt zu den renommiertesten Comic-Autoren der Gegenwart. Der Brite begann seine Karriere 1990 in englischen Magazinen, bevor er 1994 erstmals für den US-Verlag Marvel arbeitete, u. a. an den Reihen Hellstorm, Marvel 2099 und Thor. Für Aufmerksamkeit sorgten jedoch vor allem die Reihen, die bald darauf für DC Comics entstanden, nämlich Stormwatch, The Authority und vor allem Transmetropolitan. In der Folge wurde Ellis zu einem der wenigen Star-Autoren des Mediums, dessen Name zum Synonym für hochklassige, intelligente Science-Fiction-Comics wurde. Global Frequency und Planetary untermauerten seinen Status nachhaltig.

A magnificently entertaining gun held to the head of the crime thriller genre Guardian 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. Independent on Sunday If only other police procedurals had half the gumption and imaginative power of this novel. Big Issue A dazzling oasis in the desert of grimly identical police procedurals Financial Times Sick, slick and very funny...[Ellis] doesn't need pictures to create his gripping, grave new world Daily Telegraph '[Ellis] turns to conventional crime fiction with startling success...powerful writing and vast imagination' The Times 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. USA Today 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. New York Times 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. Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing Hellish fun Ian Rankin A mad police procedural just north of the border of dark fantasy. Delightful. William Gibson GUN MACHINE never lets go of the reader and never flags in its relentless pace. In the course of 300 tightly wound pages, Ellis unloads a full clip of ideas, black humor, character, and copper-sheathed action scenes. Every sentence is a bullseye. Joe Hill Underneath the pyrotechnic prose lies a perfectly paced mystery thriller. Ellis gets it so right. Mike Carey Sharp, dangerous, beautifully observed... Some