Aloha from Hell (Sandman Slim)

by Richard Kadrey

  Thanks to the real Wild Bill and Vidocq for not smothering me in my sleep. Thanks to Bart Ehrman, Raymond Chandler, Lustmord, Jon Hassell, Sergio Leone, and Guillermo del Toro.

  Thanks also to everyone who follows me on Twitter and isn’t a pornbot. Seriously bots, I have all the Russian mail order brides and barely legal Asian trannies I can handle.

  About the Author

  RICHARD KADREY has published six novels, including Sandman Slim, Kill the Dead, Butcher Bird, and Metrophage, and more than fifty stories. He has been immortalized as an action figure, and his short story “Goodbye Houston Street, Goodbye” was nominated for a British Science Fiction Association Award. A freelance writer and photographer, he lives in San Francisco. His dramatic, primarily fetishistic, photography can be found at kaosbeautyklinik.carbonmade.com.

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  ALSO BY RICHARD KADREY

  Kill the Dead

  Sandman Slim

  Credits

  Cover design by Ervin Serrano

  Cover photograph © by Amanda Friedman/Getty Images

  Copyright

  Grateful acknowledgment is made to reprint lyrics from “At the Devil’s Ball,” by Irving Berlin, 1913.

  This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  ALOHA FROM HELL. Copyright © 2011 by Richard Kadrey. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data has been applied for.

  ISBN 978-0-06-171432-0

  EPub Edition © OCTOBER 2011 ISBN: 9780062101181

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