History Literature / SandmanSlim

* OneManArmy: Brutally averted in Kill City Blues, Stark fights a couple of magic-using knife nuts in the mall and they utterly curbstomp him and his crew. It was so bad, that Stark was helpless to avoid getting tortured to the point where his rapid healing could barely keep him from falling on his face. In other books, he averts it too by usually fighting alongside one of his friends and rarely taking on more than 2 or 3-to-1 odds.

* NotUsingTheZedWord: Stark and his people all refer to the walking dead as ''{{High Plains Drifter}}s'', or just Drifters.

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* ArchangelUriel: He shows up in the first book, but is going under the name [[spoiler: Doc Kazinski]]. And also [[spoiler:is Stark's father]].

''Kill City Blues:'' Taking place one month after the events in the last book. After surviving an attempt on his life, Stark, chases down the assassin only for him to walk into an oncoming bus.bus. During his investigation he finds out where Aelita hid the [[ArtifactOfDoom Qomrama Om Ya.]] (the "8-ball"). An abandoned run down shopping mall known as, Kill City, that infested by bottom-feeding Sub Rosa families, tribes of Lurkers, and the ghosts of former employees and construction workers that died the day Kill City collapsed. [[spoiler: When Stark and crew get there they find the mad ghost that was said to be guarding the "8-ball" in the roman baths. The mad ghost turns out to be one of the parts that split from god, Nefesh. After he tells Stark where the "8-ball" is, It is taken by Medea Bava of the Inquisition. She then calls Aelita who is [[DroppedABridgeOnHim then unceremoniously killed off by her with the "8-ball"]]. Medea Bava then reveals her true goal to use the Qomrama Om Ya to summon the Angra. But then Father Traven the sin-eater, hits her in the back of the head with a piece of concrete then dumps all of the sin he stored up into her. however he died during the process. Then Stark and crew have to escape a now collapsing Kill City as it slides into the Pacific Ocean.]]

The ''SandmanSlim'' series of books by Richard Kadrey are about a man named James William Butler "Sandman Slim" Stark who is a talented magician (not a wizard! Wizards are Harry Potter) living in our world where magic is under the {{Masquerade}}. When he trusts the wrong people, the group who he thought were his allies [[AssholeVictim (or at least not asshole enough to pull a stunt like this)]] sends him on a one-way trip to hell. For eleven years he's forced to participate in gladiatorial events for the entertainment of demons and fallen angels, then recruited as hitman for Azazel. When his girlfriend back on Earth is killed, he steals a key that can take him anywhere in the universe and escapes to the mortal world to [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge hunt the killers down]], including their leader [[SmugSnake Mason Faim]] and his pet thug [[TheDragon Parker]].

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The ''SandmanSlim'' series of books by Richard Kadrey are about a man named James William Butler "Sandman Slim" Stark who is a talented magician (not a wizard! Wizards are Harry Potter) living in our world where magic is under the {{Masquerade}}. When he trusts the wrong people, the group who he thought were his allies [[AssholeVictim (or at least not asshole enough to pull a stunt like this)]] sends him on a one-way trip to hell. For eleven years he's forced to participate in gladiatorial events for the entertainment of demons and fallen angels, then recruited as hitman for Azazel. When his girlfriend back on Earth is killed, LikeABadassOutOfHell he steals a key that can take him anywhere in the universe and escapes to the mortal world to [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge hunt the killers down]], including their leader [[SmugSnake Mason Faim]] and his pet thug [[TheDragon Parker]].

* ExtraStrengthMasquerade: So a ZombieApocalypse was narrowly averted. Half of Los Angeles was in flames. Fast forward six weeks and not a single {{Muggle}} has gone public with any solid evidence of what really happened. I guess it helps that [[spoiler: all the Drifters turned to ashes]].

* ZombieApocalypse: Narrowly averted...except for LA, where it was quasi-apocalyptic.

* Nephilim: What Stark is and it's the reason why he's able to thrive in Hell. Humans are basically snacks in Hell.

* [[spoiler: JackTheRipper]]: Stark meets [[spoiler: James Kelly]] when [[spoiler: he goes back to Hell]] in ''Aloha From Hell''.

* [[spoiler: DeathByCop: The reason why Hell wants to invade Heaven. They know the forces in Heaven will curbstomp them into oblivion in a matter of seconds, but staying in Hell is so depressing that the fallen angels look forward to this.]]

Basically Stark is [[DresdenFiles Harry Dresden]] minus any sense of morality and on permanent god-mode. No wait... What's higher than god-mode?

* AntiHero

* AChatWithSatan: literally.

* AGodAmI: What Mason essentially wants. [[spoiler: Aelita, too.]]

''Kill City Blues:'' Taking place one month after the events in the last book. After surviving an attempt on his life, Stark, chases down the assassin only for him to walk into an oncoming bus.bus. During his investigation he finds out where Aelita hid the [[ArtifactOfDoom Qomrama Om Ya.]] (the "8-ball"). An abandoned run down shopping mall known as, Kill City, that infested by bottom-feeding Sub Rosa families, tribes of Lurkers, and the ghosts of former employees and construction workers that died the day Kill City collapsed. [[spoiler: When Stark and crew get there they find the mad ghost that was said to be guarding the "8-ball" in the roman baths. The mad ghost turns out to be one of the parts that split from god, Nefesh. After he tells Stark where the "8-ball" is, It is taken by Medea Bava of the Inquisition. She then call Aelita who is the unceremoniously killed off by her with the "8-ball". Medea Bava then reveals her true goal to use the Qomrama Om Ya to summon the Angra. But then Father Traven the sin-eater, hits her in the back of the head with a piece of concrete then dumps all of the sin he stored up into her. however he died during the process. Then Stark and crew have to escape a now collapsing Kill City as it slides into the Pacific Ocean.]]

''Kill City Blues:'' Taking place one month after the events in the last book. After surviving an attempt on his life, Stark, chases down the assassin only for him to walk into an oncoming bus.bus. During his investigation he finds out where Aelita hid the [[ArtifactOfDoom Qomrama Om Ya.]] (the "8-ball"). An abandoned run down shopping mall known as, Kill City, that infested by bottom-feeding Sub Rosa families, tribes of Lurkers, and the ghosts of former employees and construction workers that died the day Kill City collapsed. [[spoiler: When Stark and crew get there they find the mad ghost that was said to be guarding the "8-ball" in the roman baths. The mad ghost turns out to be one of the parts that split from god, Nefesh. After he tells Stark where the "8-ball" is, It is taken by Medea Bava of the Inquisition. She then call Aelita who is the unceremoniously killed off by her with the "8-ball". Medea Bava then reveals her true goal to use the Qomrama Om Ya to summon the Angra. But then Father Traven the sin-eater, hits her in the back of the head with a piece of concrete then dumps all of the sin he stored up into her. however he died during the process. Then Stark and crew have to escape a now collapsing Kill City as it slides into the Pacific Ocean.

''Devil Said Bang'': Taking place three months after the events in the last book. Stark is not enjoying his time ruling Hell fthe new Lucifer. When three Hellion assassins attack Stark, and are defeated by him. This leads to Stark investigating who is plotting to kill him. He find an 8-ball that is in actuality the [[ArtifactOfDoom Qomrama Om Ya.]] He then kills one of the main conspirators, then returns to, Los Angeles, to see how his friends are doing. Only to find himself not being warmly welcomed back. As it turns out Stark's angel-half now called, "Saint James", is accused of killing the mayor's son and, a ghost is going around killing members of the sub rosa. [[spoiler: he later meets Cherry Moon as a Jabber (a ghost that haunts its own corpse.) Stark learns that the ghost is killing sub rosa members called dreamers that hold reality together by well... dreaming. While being controlled by Teddy that became a ghoul because of a pact his grandfather made with Lucifer and Lula a skinhead and was a member Josef's group. (and was in love with him.) Aelita was the reason behind everything and when Stark used the "8-ball" on her she captured it and escaped with it. At the end Mr. Munnin becomes the new Lucifer and reintegrates "Saint James" back into Stark along with the key of thirteen doors.]]

''Kill City Blues: coming soon.''

* CloningBlues:[[spoiler: God. He was once one being, but over the years he split into five separate beings Muinn, Neshamah, Ruach, and two others.]]