Picking up shortly after the events of Kill City Blues, Los Angeles is literally on the verge of the Apocalypse and Stark (just Stark, thank you very much) is on the Golden Vigil payroll, helping the government’s supernatural spooks combat the Angra Om Ya-old gods that were rooked out of their universe by the fractured upstart God of so many Earthly faiths. In Dresden Files terms, there is too much “Hell’s bells, Murph!” and not enough fighting zombies astride a dinosaur. That rote, “just-another-day-at-the-office” feeling is what prevents The Getaway God-a good book by all accounts-from being great. Just another day at the office for everyone’s favorite nephilim. Friends and enemies (both new and old) appear. The Getaway God, Richard Kadrey’s sixth novel in the Sandman Slim series, is a confounding-but ultimately entertaining-entry in the story of James Stark.
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