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Post by silverstar on Aug 27, 2014 0:45:36 GMT
I've been scouring the net, trying to ID this book ever since I saw a post on a search forum a few months back and am hoping it strikes a chord with someone on here:
In the 70's/80's there was a pulp hardboiled dark Sci-fi novel about a cop/detective in the future chasing a serial killer between planets.
The cop and the killer were both human but the killer had an alien henchman that looked like a 7ft tall praying mantis who would eat people as payment.
Gritty, noir-ish, full of sex and violence, splatterpunk style, circa 1987 from maybe Tor or Ballantine.
Some have suggested a Humanx novel by Alan Dean Foster but none fit, this is much darker in tone!
Any help would be much appreciated!
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billyc
New Face In Hell
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Post by billyc on Sept 2, 2015 19:57:30 GMT
Hi,
Probably Mike Resnick: WalpurgisIII
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Post by silverstar on Sept 12, 2015 15:16:47 GMT
Thanks for the suggestion, definitely the closest one I've seen yet but crucially it's missing the praying mantis henchman. Any other suggestions? Some people have suggested a Thranx novel by Alan Dean Foster but I can't find one that fits......
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