Books like Sandman Slim

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   1. Sandman Slim

   by Kadrey, Richard

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   Supernatural fantasy has a new antihero Life sucks and then you die. Or, if you're James Stark, you spend eleven years in Hell as a hitman before finally escaping, only...

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   2. Kill The Dead

   by Kadrey, Richard

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   Life's a bitch, then you die . . . if you're lucky. James Stark, a.k.a. Sandman Slim, crawled out of Hell, took revenge for his girlfriend's murder, and saved the...

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   3. Aloha From Hell

   by Kadrey, Richard

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   In Sandman Slim Stark came back from hell for revenge. In Kill the Dead he tackled both a zombie plague and being Lucifer's bodyguard. And once again all is not...

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   4. Devil Said Bang

   by Kadrey, Richard

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   Richard Kadrey’s Sandman Slim—aka James Stark—is, quite simply, one of the most outrageous uber-anti-heroes ever to kick serious butt on this or any other world or dimension. In his previous...

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   5. Killing Pretty

   by Kadrey, Richard

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   Sandman Slim investigates Death’s death in this hip, propulsive urban fantasy through a phantasmagoric LA rife with murder, mayhem, and magic. James Stark has met his share of demons and...

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   6. The Devil You Know

   by Carey, Mike

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   Read Mike Carey's Felix Castor series for something just like Dresden in style and form, yet completely different. The blurb states it's 'every bit as good as Jim Butcher' and...

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   7. Rivers Of London

   by Aaronovitch, Ben

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   Ah, detective urban fantasy but with a decidedly police procedural bent. If you like the idea of Dresden but hate the over-the-top, break all magical rules on a whim aspect...

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   8. Libromancer

   by Hines, Jim C.

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   How to describe this one? It's kind of like Brandon Sanderson and Jim Butcher got it on in a library and this was their literary love child. There is really...

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   9. Child Of Fire

   by Connolly, Harry

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   I quite liked this one. I think it's probably the best next It’s dark, gritty, and it dose new things in the genre. Yes, it’s got some of the elements...

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    10. Something From The Nightside

    by Green, Simon R.

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    An interesting concept. A dark gritty hidden part of London that functions as a sort of universal septic tank -- home to gods, demons, angles, humans, misfits and every sort...

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    11. Garrett, P.i. Series

    by Cook, Glen

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    Gritty detective fantasy in a warzone - this is The Dresden Files before Dresden. Garrot PI has been vastly overshadowed by Cook’s The Black Company, but these are actually some...

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    12. Hounded

    by Hearne, Kevin

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    The Iron Druid Chronicles is one of those series you either really like or you are completely ambivalent about. I fall into the later category; for the most part, Hearne...

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    13. Butchers Bird

    by Kadrey, Richard

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    Wow, what a novel -- supremely rich of imagination. Kadrey is often compared to the likes of Neil Gaiman, but more of a blue color version of him. Kadrey tackles...

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    14. Alex Verus

    by Jacka, Benedict

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    Alex Verus by Benedict Jacka A lot of the books on this list have a similarity. They may be in wildly different settings and various fantasy worlds, but most of...

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    15. Dirty Streets Of Heaven

    by Williams, Tad

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    This one by Tad Williams, a master at writing well plotted, rich fantasy tales.This is his second foray into urban fantasy territory (first being War of the Flowers - another...

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