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THE EVERYTHING BOX

Richard Kadrey

Coop is a thief who specializes in stealing magic objects. He has no magical abilities, just a natural resistance to magic, the way some people never seem to catch colds. Because of this, he comes from a long line of thieves.

After getting out of prison for trying to steal a magical artifact, Coop is out of a job—until a mysterious (and probably evil) rich man offers him a lot of money to steal a magical box. Coop puts together a gang of fellow thieves to help him steal it—and then discovers a secret government agency is after it as well. Along with the Mafia. And a cult. And another cult. And then there's the angel who misplaced the box, four thousand years ago, who would really like to find it before he loses his job.

THE EVERYTHING BOX is the first book in a brand new comic fantasy series. It's lighter in tone than Kadrey's earlier Sandman Slim novels, more in the tradition of Christopher Moore and Terry Pratchett.

Richard Kadrey is the New York Times-bestselling author of the SANDMAN SLIM series, which has been translated into Czech, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, and Russian. The sixth Sandman Slim novel, THE GETAWAY GOD, was a 2014 Goodreads Choice Award nominee, and his standalone fantasy novel BUTCHER BIRD was nominated for the Prix Elkaban in France. He has also written over fifty short stories, including “Goodbye Houston Street, Goodbye,” which was nominated for a British Science Fiction Association Award.
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Published 2016-04-01 by Harper Voyager

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Russia: Eksmo

Just plain fun. Offbeat and whimsical, the apocalypse never seemed so gut-bustingly funny. . . . The pacing is fast, the dialogue quippy, and the characters are larger than life. THE EVERYTHING BOX is a fantastic read and a hell of a start to this series.

Richard Kadrey's The Everything Box is a manic and hilarious Venn diagram of Elmore Leonard, Dave Barry, and the Book of Revelations. The last time the end of the world in a novel was this funny, aliens destroyed Earth to build a hyperspace bypass through it. – Matt Wallace

A supernatural comic caper that reads like one of the late Donald Westlake's Dortmunder novels sprinkled with some fairy dust.

A rolling bouncy-house of a caper tale, THE EVERYTHING BOX abounds with quick-witted characters, snarky dialogue, and surreal analogies. If you haven't sampled Richard Kadrey's take on fantasy yet, this is a great place to start. – Christopher Moore, New York Times-bestselling author of Lamb, A Dirty Job, and The Serpent of Venice

Kadrey's plot doesn't depend on magic; instead, magic is the broth bringing all manner of delicious ingredients together in this wonderful stew of a story. This unusual urban fantasy is a delight.

Poland: Wydawnictwo SQN

[Kadrey] can make Hell funnier than you'd believe. Raymond Chandler meets Good Omens, in which multiple doomsday cults, secret government agencies, and crooks of every description compete to retrieve the box, a perfect McGuffin, a Maltese Falcon with the power to destroy all of Creation. -- Cory Doctorow