Dead Men's Boots

Dead Men's Boots

2007 • 544 pages

Ratings18

Average rating3.7

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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 his three problems might be related. With the help of the succubus Juliet and paranoid zombie data-fence Nicky Heath, Castor just might have a chance of fitting the pieces together before someone drops him down a lift shaft or rips his throat out. Or not. . .

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6 primary books

Felix Castor

Felix Castor is a 6-book series with 6 primary works first released in 2006 with contributions by Mike Carey.

The Devil You Know
Vicious Circle
Dead Men's Boots
Thicker Than Water
The Naming of the Beasts
The Ghost in Bone

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Mr. Carey turns a phrase like a finely balanced dagger. Pure fun.

March 7, 2022

This one was a slog. I enjoyed Carey's first one but this one was all genre formula and very little of anything else.

June 2, 2013

Don't let the low star rating fool you. I enjoyed this book and I've already bought the next in the series.

December 5, 2018

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