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Obviously you don't read Warren Ellis if you're not OK with profanity, ultra-violence, disturbing imagery, and a fixation on technology and psychogeography that supports a certain amount of slightly-too-artificial monologuing. Personally I enjoy these things, and Ellis has found a nice home for them in the New York crime procedural, so overall I'm well pleased. I agree with other reviewers that the resolution is too abrupt, and the killer's fate is a little too tidy, seemingly in service of a bi
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Great read! A detective story with a creative premise: a police detective and two CSIs on the trail of a serial killer who has been completely undetected for decades. As the story unfolds his connections to a group of people in power are revealed. It all comes to a breathless conclusion, with satisfying answers to the many mysteries. I thought the New York City dialog was convincing, although it could be argued that the story probably could have worked in a London setting (Ellis is English).
Brilliantly twisted police procedural. At times brutally violent (not that I mind), but always deeply engrossing.
Brilliant book, and far more than your standard police procedural. Dark, funny and really quite bizarre in places. Lovely, twisted little tale. Warren Ellis is beautiful madman.
Just a fantastic read. I could not put it down.
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