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Loved the charaters. Jones reminds me of some of my favorite characters from Hellblazer, Fell, ... others with intense and strong male charaters, though Jones is probably...more...]]> 5 4 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 04 11:37:03 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 04 11:48:21 -0700 2007
The premise is that the city of Los Angeles se...more...]]> 4 3 false false Sun Nov 16 10:55:01 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 05 09:30:15 -0800 2009
L.A. has been turned into the a sort of open prison/ retirement community for burned out spies and government test subjects where the test went wrong.

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I think anyone reading this could guess who wrote it. It's such a "dirty" environment and the characters language is so wonderfully filthy that it could only be Warren Ellis.

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I don't want to spoil it but Desolation Jones is about a "retired" British secret agent in the near fut...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Dec 21 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 08:22:15 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 08:47:39 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Dec 24 20:36:19 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 27 19:48:08 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Mar 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 11 12:40:24 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 03 18:19:34 -0700 2008
The basic story is pure noir--Jones is hired to find a missing MacGuffin, and the meat of the story is his interactions...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Apr 11 14:30:14 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 11 14:30:41 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu May 24 17:22:41 -0700 2007 Thu May 24 17:29:20 -0700 2007 Ellis does good work and it's easy to see his earlier works shining through. The humor, characters and settings remind you of Transmet in a good way and the content is different e...more...]]> 0 1 false false Tue Sep 08 10:25:55 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 10:28:41 -0700 2009 6
That's what I learned from this book.]]> 4 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 18 08:43:05 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 18:50:50 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Mar 30 16:21:56 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 16:21:56 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Oct 25 16:57:33 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 17:06:56 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Aug 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 05:23:21 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 05:23:59 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Nov 05 22:33:43 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 22:34:33 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 07 16:52:08 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 16:53:04 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=43738