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2.5 

Closing Time at the Sunny-Side-Up

By David Niall Wilson
Closing Time at the Sunny-Side-Up by David Niall Wilson digital book - Fable

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Quentin Tarantino meets Smokey & The Bandit in this noir, science-fiction thriller. Sometimes, people just need killing. When Sam West wanders into the Sunny-Side-Up Diner hoping for a last slice of Mort's world-class pie, and one last look at a waitress named Delilah, he has no idea he's about to become the instrument of a great, karmic cleansing. The only thing crazier than the seemingly inevitable trail of bodies following Sam and Delilah south is the fact that - as State Police and local sheriffs begin to investigate - they find no evidence. Nothing. And the missing bodies are just the start, as an unlikely band of companions are drawn together in a scientific experiment more in line with the TV Series Fringe than anything in reality, with the threat of alien probes, local law enforcement, and rednecks around every corner.

What folks are saying...

"David Niall Wilson has done it again with Closing Time at the Sunny-Side-Up with a rollicking, crazy, horrific but endlessly entertaining and amusing story. I just wanted to find this nutty band of cutthroats and join them in this murderous energy-crisis-solving killing spree." -Michael DiMercurio, author of Ambush of the Dragon

"Welcome to the Sunny Side Up Diner, where waitress Delilah decides she's had enough. After counting her tips for the day, she makes a fatal decision that sends her careening across south Texas with a band of criminals, scorching a trail of terror at every stop they make. Fasten your seatbelts readers, and hop into one of the fastest reads you're bound to crack this year." -Michael Laimo, author of Missed Connection and Deep in the Darkness

"David Niall Wilson's Closing Time at the Sunny-Side-Up is a fast-paced, exhilarating story of the road, with depraved murderers, weird scientists, and dedicated lawmen, all entangled in overlapping webs of intrigue. I've read many, many works by Mr. Wilson, and I put this one way up at the top of the list."

-Stephen Mark Rainey, author of The House at Black Tooth Pond

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2.5
“I fear I was not the audience for this. I’m very picky with sci-fi (as it’s def not my fav genre) so this was a hard one for me!! Some pretty poor grammar, as well as over-sexualisation of one of the female characters - I don’t understand what her purpose was, other than just being a “diversity” character?? This book did not pass Bechdel test as I don’t even think the two female characters interacted once.”

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