'Beerlight was a blown circuit, where to kill a man was less a murder than a mannerism ... Crime was the new and only artform.'
A book with its own nervous system, Slaughtermatic
follows Dante Cubit through the streets of Beerlight as he hunts for a
crime mentor, tangling with Chief Henry Blince and the hitman Brute
Parker on the way.
Real satire amid the bomb zombies, scary clowns and needle bars of the
city. Gun karma navigated. Hassle with the locals, breaking our man in
half.
After robbing a bank with the aid of a painkiller-guzzling,
trigger-happy Kid and attempting to escape by killing his own
recent-past self, Dante soon realises that there is no escape from a
trap that expands with you.