Part of today’s ebook deals of the day over at Amazon is Richard Kadrey‘s Kill City Blues: A Sandman Slim Novel for the Kindle for only $1.99.

If you’d like a physical copy of the book, the Paperback is currently $12.04, while the Hardcover is currently $18.29.

Note, the ebook deal is valid only for today, Friday, August 22, 2014, until 11:59pm PST.

From the product page:

New York Times bestselling author Richard Kadrey’s fifth Sandman Slim adventure.

James Stark, aka Sandman Slim, has lost the Qomrama Om Ya, an all-powerful weapon from the banished older gods. Older gods who are returning and searching for their lost power.

The hunt leads Stark to an abandoned shopping mall infested with tribes of squatters. Somewhere in this kill zone is a dead man with the answers Stark needs. All Stark has to do is find the dead man, recover the artifact, and outwit and outrun the angry old gods””and natural-born killers””on his tail.

But not even Sandman Slim is infallible, and any mistakes will cost him dearly.

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