Dead Men's Boots
You might think that helping a friend's widow to stop a lawyer from stealing her husband's corpse would be the strangest thing on your To Do list. But life is rarely that simple for Felix Castor.\ A brutal murder in King's Cross bears all the hallmarks of a long-dead American serial killer, and it takes more good sense than Castor possesses not to get involved. He's also fighting a legal battle over the body - if not the soul - of his possessed friend, Rafi, and can't shake the feeling that...
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"Dead Men's Boots" is the third entry in the critically acclaimed supernatural noir series featuring wisecracking, hardboiled exorcist Felix Castor.Publishers WeeklyEvery bit as good as the better-known Jim Butcher, Carey hits his stride with his third hard-boiled supernatural thriller (after Vicious Circle). Felix "Fix" Castor,A a London-based exorcist who uses music to fight evil spirits and other paranormal creatures, faces two major challenges. The burial of Fix's friend John Gittings is disrupted by a lawyer with a court order mandating that the corpse be cremated; Gittings's widow retains Fix to prevent the body's exhumation. Meanwhile, a woman asks Fix to clear her husband of rape and murder charges by proving that Myriam Seaforth Kale, a gangster who's been dead for 40 years, is actually responsible. While looking into how Kale has come back from the dead to resume killing people, Fix finds links to a larger threat from the dark side. Carey has a way with words (a character dresses "like someone who'd taken The Matrix a little too seriously") as well as a gift for creating a plausible alternate reality. (July)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
\ Publishers WeeklyEvery bit as good as the better-known Jim Butcher, Carey hits his stride with his third hard-boiled supernatural thriller (after Vicious Circle). Felix "Fix" Castor,A a London-based exorcist who uses music to fight evil spirits and other paranormal creatures, faces two major challenges. The burial of Fix's friend John Gittings is disrupted by a lawyer with a court order mandating that the corpse be cremated; Gittings's widow retains Fix to prevent the body's exhumation. Meanwhile, a woman asks Fix to clear her husband of rape and murder charges by proving that Myriam Seaforth Kale, a gangster who's been dead for 40 years, is actually responsible. While looking into how Kale has come back from the dead to resume killing people, Fix finds links to a larger threat from the dark side. Carey has a way with words (a character dresses "like someone who'd taken The Matrix a little too seriously") as well as a gift for creating a plausible alternate reality. (July)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\ \ \ \ \ \ Library JournalIn this third book in a series that began with The Devil You Know, Felix Castor is an exorcist-for-hire in modern-day London, on the trail of a serial killer who died 40 years ago. With the help of a reformed succubus and a zombie hacker, he works to uncover the conspiracy that led to the death of one of his colleagues. It's difficult to avoid comparing Castor to wizard sleuth Harry Dresden of Jim Butcher's "Dresden Files" series. Both have a similar noir-fantasy sensibility, but Castor's world is darker and more tragic, with more punishing consequences and a less redeeming hero. Carey has a good pedigree in the world of comics, having written Hellblazer: All His Engines and the graphic novel adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere. VERDICT Expect this series to grow in popularity. Books four and five are already published in Britain. Highly recommended for fans of dark urban fantasy.—Karl G. Siewert, Tulsa City-Cty. Lib., OK\ \ \ Kirkus ReviewsLondon-based exorcist Felix (Fix) Castor drops into the middle of a riddle involving a deceased colleague with strange habits, a bizarre killing and legendary gangsters. Fellow exorcist John Gittings died by his own hand, locked in the bathroom with a shotgun. Although not anxious to wade into messy post-life situations created by Gittings' suicide, Fix feels guilty about ignoring phone calls asking for his help on a big new job. So he agrees to help Gittings' wife soothe his erstwhile colleague's restless ghost. This promise from the witty, sardonic, timeworn veteran of otherworldly battles between the living and dead leads to the usual results. All hell breaks loose. In fact, all hell pretty much shows up. Fix soon crosses paths with the wife of a man accused of murder; sure that he's innocent, she hires Fix to find the real killer. One problem: The slayer is a Chicago-based female serial killer put to death several decades earlier. When Fix starts connecting the dots, he's sidetracked by personal relationships. His friend Rafi, possessed by a demon, might be shipped off for some medical research that's less than friendly; his zombie buddy Nick wants him to take a hike; and Juliet, the succulent succubus-turned-exorcist, has conflicting views about one of Fix's cases. Readers expect Fix's adventures (Vicious Circle, 2008, etc.) to be peppered with bons mots, lots of creatures of the formerly alive kind and tsunamis of action, and this new outing won't disappoint. Carey's prose leaves the reader breathless, but that's the kind of ride he usually provides. His 3-D extravaganza engages all the senses, then deftly holds the punch line until dead last. Readers seeking a leisurely summer readwon't find it in this irresistible tale, which will have them staying up much too late for the pleasure of "just one more chapter" before dousing the lights.\ \ \ \ \ From the Publisher"Carey's prose leaves the reader breathless, but that's the kind of ride he usually provides. His 3-D extravaganza engages all the senses, then deftly holds the punch line until dead last." —-Kirkus Starred Review\ \
