<P>New York Times bestselling author Richard Kadrey's fifth Sandman Slim adventure.<P>James Stark, aka Sandman Slim, has lost the Qomrama Om Ya, an all-powerful weapon from the banished older gods. Older gods who are returning and searching for their lost power.<P>The hunt leads Stark to an abandoned shopping mall infested with tribes of squatters. Somewhere in this kill zone is a dead man with the answers Stark needs. All Stark has to do is find the dead man, recover the artifact, and outwit and outrun the angry old gods--and natural-born killers--on his tail.<P>But not even Sandman Slim is infallible, and any mistakes will cost him dearly.<P>
