The Everything Box by Richard Kadrey, 352 pages (advanced reading copy)Coop is a career criminal who specializes in stealing magical items that are protected by everything from your standard combination safe and swinging axe booby traps to curse tripwires and demons that masquerade as small children. Fresh out of prison, Coop is hired to steal an innocuous-looking box, which is then stolen again, and again, and Coop is hired to steal it back, again, and again. His job is made infinitely harder by competing demonic cults, a host of mysterious bad guys, and the obnoxious meddling of the government Department of Peculiar Science (DOPS, which is pronounced "dopes,"), who are all attempting to steal the box, which may be the key to starting the apocalypse, or it could just be really lucky. Who knows.
I had a blast reading this book. It's like Christopher Moore and Jim Butcher decided to get together and write a heist novel. It's silly, full of crazy creatures and characters, and it's a heist! And I'm a sucker for a heist. This is theoretically the first in a series; if so, I can't wait for the next one!
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