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Thud! from Terry Pratchett
KoomValley? That was where the trolls ambushed the dwarfs, or the dwarfs ambushed the trolls. It was far away. It was a long time ago.

But if he doesn’t solve the murder of just one dwarf, Commander Sam Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch is going to see it fought again, right outside his office.
With his beloved Watch crumbling around him and war-drums sounding, he must unravel every clue, outwit every assassin and brave any darkness to find the solution.And darkness is following him....

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Title: Midnighter: Killing Machine v. 1
Author: Garth EnnisChris Sprouse
ISBN: 1845766334
EAN: 9781845766337
144 Pages
Publisher: Titan Books Ltd
Binding: Paperback
Publication date: 2007-12-21

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2008-04-08 hard, brutal and clever

Ennis is not an author I regularly follow, but I am a huge fan of the whole Authority franchise. Amazingly he has preserved the "bizarre superhero family in a giant spaceship" feel of The Authority and yet , of course, managed to weld-on a story about WWI and WWII.
Once it gets going the action is relentless, surprising and grim, yet the dialogue crackles and brings in ideas at a rate of knots, even just focussing on a (admittedly the most interesting) single member of the Authority. I won't spoil the story but the ending is a huge satisfying twist that you should have seen coming a mile off, but somehow never occurred to you.
Overall - amazing, roll on book 2