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Urban fantasy has been a pretty fallow genre for me, despite loving urban stories and being a reader of fantasy. Mainly because it has been taken over by paranormal romance (darn necrophiliacs ruin everything). Thankfully Kadrey is here to show how it can be done. The writer of one of the better of the cyberpunk novels Metrophage (not the most important but hands down one of the best realized and written), he disappeared and maybe spent eleven years in hell like his protagonist Stark because he has returned with an awful attitude. Yes a character named Stark seeking revenge and another character named Parker, the spirit of Westlake is alive in this book. Noir, heaping helpings of Garth Ennis’s Preacher and Eric Kripke’s Supernatural, Kung Fu flicks and Spaghetti Westerns form the DNA of this book as much as its recognizable genre, making this a pulpy, grisly, dark humored gem of an entertainment. The main character’s bad attitude is a little wearying at times, but the book has got so much movement that it is hard to find fault. I don’t think I like the name or title Sandman Slim much though.