I have a new man in my life his name is Sandman Slim. He's not the nicest guy in the world but you will sure love having him around. He's got a great bike, likes to have a drink or two, will make you laugh and has a killer personality.
I just read my first Sandman Slim novel and it was love at first read. He's half moral half Angel and this book finds him Hell dead on a mountain. He is found by a man named Magistrate and his right hand person Daja. If it hadn't been for their holy man Traven that would have be it right there and then for our hero. But they give Slim, who at this point is going by the name ZaSu Pitts a chance to save his life by meeting with the Oracle. If he passed that test he will be given a chance to live and redeem himself. Pitts/Slim is released into Traven's custody. Unknown of course to everyone Traven and Slim were good friends in the Uptown. Slim explains to his friend that he was killed, sent to Hell/Tenebrae where they are now but no idea why.
The meeting with the Oracle goes surprisingly well and he is accepted into the group by the Magistrate. But much to the chagrin of Daja who doesn't like or trust him. From here on Daja and her best friend Wanuri go out of their way to keep an eye on our hero who of course goes out of his way to try to figure out what the heck is going on with the Magistrate and his band of merry men. And I use that term very loosely. The havoc that travels with the Magistrate is a mismatched group of souls and Hellions.
The Magistrate is on a crusade of sorts. He goes from town to town looking for information. While on these travels Slim finds out just how deeply troubled and cruel the Magistrate is. For his final test of loyalty Slim is forced to pick someone at a town to be executed. While it sickens him to do so, he finds a man he knows is a child molester. Makes his choice. That convinces the Magistrate that he is one of them and rewards him by making him one of his bodyguards. This helps Slim do more nosing around to try to figure out what the crusade is about and what is under the tarp on the flatbed truck. Now at the next town the Magistrate talks to the town council and one person looks at his map and tells him some really good news. This of course makes that cruel Magistrate happy! He brings her, the Empress Consort Hristora back to his travel trailer and as he walks by he says...... kill them all.
Then like nothing happened it's back on the road to go find what the Empress had shown him. They finally get to there and Traven is copying down the information of the pillar and oh boy a legion of angels come looking for Slim. There a huge battle of course, and no one except for Slim and Traven know who the angels are really looking for even though one of them screaming come out here. So finally Slim goes out on top of one of the semis and gets into a fight with the angel who called him out. Now the angel is calling him by his real name, Sandman Slim. Now remember they still think his name is ZaSu Pitts. So after they see Slim kill the angel, Slim had taken his knife and used it on him, they were totally scared to death of him because no one could kill an angel except Death and another angel. Well during the battle 6 other angels showed up to help and they with Slim made short work of the first bunch and battle over. So now time for a big talk. Vehuel, the head angel, Alice her helper, Slim, the Magistrate, Daja, Wanuri and a whole bunch of others go to the Magistrate's and the truth starts coming out. Sandman confesses to who he really is and what he is. Half moral half angel. They also find out that the Magistrate is the fallen arch angel Raziel who has had his wings removed. The Oracle is really a mortal named Cherry. But she does really have powers to see the future. Then the truth regarding the crusade comes out. They are after the Lux Occisor, the sword of God. The sword that can end the war that is currently going on to see who controls heaven. Now the only ones that known where it is for sure are Vehuel and Alice because the pillar that had the information on it that Traven was copying down was destroyed during the battle between the angels earlier that day. So from that point their are a strange friendship.
There's so much more to this story but you're just going to have to read it for you to find out what happens. Because I'm totally out of room to finish the review!
One of the things that I really liked about Richard Kadrey's writing was that he took the time to help explain what was going on with terms for levels of hell and the different kinds of "people" . Also things that happened in earlier books without it making it seem like flashbacks or he was stopping the action in the story. Without that I would have be very confused at times and it would have been a deterrent to the story. Even with that I feel I'm going to have to go back and read from the beginning to completely understand how everything weaves together. TY Harper Collins for this book!
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