The Wrong Dead Guy audiobook

The Wrong Dead Guy is the sequel to The Everything Box by author Richard Kadrey and it is just as wild and wacky. Coop has given up his criminal ways (sorta) and has gone legit (sorta). He is still a master thief but now he does his thieving for the Department of Peculiar Sciences or DOPS. His latest assignment is to steal a mummy named Harkhuf. Unfortunately, turns out this mummy is not quite as dead as expected and his magic is as old and powerful as he is. Not only that but Harkhuf intends to bring back his lost love, a warrior queen who is even more powerful than he is, after which, together they will create an undead army to conquer the world. Now, it’s up to Coop and friends to save the world once again. The Wrong Dead Guy is all kinds of quirky, chaotic, and funny as well as fast and furious and I enjoyed every hilarious minute of it. It ends on a bit of a cliffhanger which means another installment and I am already in anticipation mode.Thanks to Edelweiss and Harper Voyager for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for an honest review

I've read this author's Sandman Slim series, so I was curious about what other kind of books he wrote. I love a good thief story involving heists and pulling off the impossible, and this book does just that. And it's funny, which is something that I always love in a book.

It's hard to make me laugh out loud when I'm reading, but this did. I really hope there are going to be more of these books.

The Wrong Dead Guy is utterly hilarious. I don't know whether Richard Kadrey is an alien or merely a genius. Who else would think of such an amazing assortment of hijinks and heists? Captivated from the start, I wavered between laughing out loud and gaping in incredulity. What starts as the simple theft of a mummy leads to a cascade of bizarre activity. From invading a museum dressed as clowns to stealing a library by turning it into an elephant, Coop does what is necessary to save his own skin and save the world. After all, it just wouldn't do to let a 3000 year old mummy take over the world. To give you an example of the weird and wonderful things you will find in The Wrong Dead Guy, I've made a short list.A pocket sized elder godAn undead mailroom manager intent on revenge and world domination through control of the mailA mummy reawakened by mustard from a hamburger and his newspaper craving thrallA car salesman/cowboy/con with a penchant for guns and making commercials with exotic animalsTwo washed up psychics in search of a comeback and a talk showMice with ears on their back and a set of not so bright animal rights revolutionaries A menagerie of monsters, ghosts, and miscellaneous bizarre beingsFor cat lovers like me - A scientist cat ghost in a television on eight robotic legs, and a girlfriend intent on adding a feline member of the familyIt isn't easy being a thief working for the Department of Peculiar Sciences, especially if you want to stay alive and not end up a mail room mook.I loved this novel, and the ending - magnificent! If you like comedic science fiction, Richard Kadrey can't be beat. 5/5I received a copy of The Wrong Dead Guy from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.--Crittermom

Richard Kadrey sets up another amusing adventure compromising colorful humans and non-humans associated with the Department of Peculiar Science. Rising to the highest bar in entertaining fiction, Kadrey introduces the reader to a hired hand of small thieves bent on stealing a mummy from a local museum. When the wrong mummy is stolen, and has now become a homicidal fossil on the loose with vast magical abilities and an unknown agenda, the reader is strapped in for a comically absurd ride. The excellence of Kadrey's imaginative concoction shines like a desk squid surrounded by brand new silver crucifixes.

The sequel is also snarky and full of sarcasm, but I didn't think it was as funny as the first book. I still liked it and loved all the adventures of Coop and the team and enjoyed the ride, but I wasn't laughing out loud like I was with book one.

I'm basing my review off of an advanced reading copy I got at the ALA Midwinter Conference in Atlanta in January of 2017. I'd say this is a pretty solid four-star book. I don't know that I loved everything about it, but there were several times that I actually chuckled out loud. You'd probably have to hang around me for a while to know how effusive that praise actually is. I don't laugh out loud at books. I don't want the attention. I read in public a lot.Anyway, back to the book. Just as with the previous book in the series, The Wrong Dead Guy is completely unpredictable. Anything can happen, and usually does. That may sound trite, but Kadrey makes it work and work rather well. The characters are fun to hang out with. Coop is a pretty decent guy and a good character to be with, which is good as he gets the majority of the "screen time." The other characters are fun and quirky enough that they would probably get annoying if you spent more time with them, but Kadrey keeps it to just the right amount. It's a delicate line to walk.This may get bumped up to five stars if and when I read the actual published version. There were a couple little grammar errors that, while fairly minor, were just jarring enough to jolt me out of my enjoyment when I read them. But again, advanced reading copy. If they happened in a final version it would knock the score dramatically.Good book. Fun to read. Make sure you read the previous entry in the series. You wouldn't be totally lost coming in blind, but everything's a lot easier when you know what happened previously.

This is a very silly book and it's pretty great.It's not quite as good as the first book, but it's very good still and nearly as good, just it has some weird bits that don't pay off quite the way you want them to. It's very good, it's all very silly. There's a robot ghost cat... thing, and it's kind of the best. There's a very strange running bit about animal rights activists, there's a car salesman and some very strange things in the basement.This is at heart a heist, and the heist bits are some of the funniest and well done bits. I also like that there's a bit that just goes flashes forward 30 years for a couple of characters. Just to assure you that things are going to be OK.It's a very strange and funny book. It does comedy very well and just lets the fantasy elements exist without much more thought than "yeah, sure." It often feels like nearly anything can happen, so when something very unlikely happens it's fine and the only explanation needed is "it's weird magic, it's fine".Also, as an audiobook I could never tell if Mr. Night or Mr. Knight was talking.In a book which was written to be a very goofy and purposefully confusing story the Night/Knight gag was the hardest thing to try to track in an audiobook.

A 3.5 starrerThis howlarious book picks up where book 1 left off and amps up the dial all the way upto 11 in terms of weirdness, hilarity and general craziness Riffing loosely on the Mummy movies, the book finds our particularly intrepid cast led by Coop breaking into a museum to steal a mummy only to find the aforementioned mummy is quite well and alive and plans for what else, world domination once his girlfriend mummy is awakened as well. In line with the previous book, we have a set of characters (in this case ecoterrorists) with what seems a completely new storyline that routinely cuts across the book as well to great dramatic effect. With nary a dull moment, the book simply rockets through Then why the 3.5. It treads the fine line between humor in fantasy and fantasy in humor and falls on the latter side far more than what I am comfortable with and at times it jus gets a bit too exhausting keeping up with it all plus a niggling feel that the author is trying perhaps a bit too much. Not to mention the uber convenient Dues Ex MachinaBut hey, the group chemistry is a total hoot, Coop n Giselle make up for a very cute pair, plus there a Star Wars themed boxers that makes up for a story. Total fun

'Funny, Weird, Bonkers...down right strangeI've been meaning to read this book for quite sometime it sounded so weird and wonderful I had to give it a go. I was honestly not disappointed one bit by this book it was truly amazing. I'm not one for overly whimsical stories but this one did it it in such a casual and strange way as if it was everyday life which made it even more strange. The story of the heist was interesting but I think I found the other characters like Nelson and his employee and the mice with ears and the man with heads over his office those characters I preferred more and wanted more from. I loved the DR I fell in love with him instantly such a lovely and sweet character and I'd love more backstory about him too. This book is just so bonkers and brilliant and so fast paced and wonderful I can't get enough it was so amazing. I can't wait to read more well I'm hoping for more books soon.Also I've only now realised that this is the 2nd book from the series and there is in fact a 1st one so I'm probably going to edit this review after I've read the 1st one as well.

I read this without having read the first in the series, and didn't feel like I missed out on any important information. Kadrey's world is charming and utterly nonsensical in a delightful way. Some other books that strive for his flavour of whimsical can overdo it with the one-liners or just be so over the top that the world doesn't feel grounded, but his writing strikes a good balance. Would recommend this as a palette cleanser if you've been reading a lot of heavy stuff lately and need a break.

With "The Wrong Dead Guy" Richard Kadrey has created a motley crew of down-on-their-luck streetwise characters worthy of Donald Westlake trapped in a dark fantasy universe reminiscent of the works of Charles Stross or Simon R. Green. But while the latter authors write serious fantasy, "The Wrong Dead Guy" and its predecessor, "The Anything Box" are satires on the urban fantasy genre, written with amusing characters, snappy dialogue, and a biting sense of humor. If you're looking for a change of pace from the run-of-the-mill urban fantasy novel, this might be what you're looking for.

I am kinda glad that I changed my mind and read another book by Richard Kadrey, the dark twisted humor kind of grows on you.If I was stranded on a deserted island and I only had this book, I would be thankful for it.And yes, I liked it so much, I will most definitely seek out additional Richard Kadrey works, of the 4 I have read, I would give a rating 9 of 10 which makes him one of the better authors I've read.

I guess I chose to read this book because I loved the first book so much...but unfortunately this book dragged because I got sick & ended up putting it down for awhile...I read "The Man Who Invented Christmas" instead...then I went back to the book & finally finished it on New Year's eve...it's a weird read & at times doesn't make a lot of sense but I'd recommend it if you don't mind reading craziness...

A very different tone than the Sandman Slim books, much lighter. There's still some occasional gory violence but it's almost slapstick. It feels a lot like if Christopher Moore wrote a caper novel featuring a modern-day Dortmunder type who ended up working for the US version of the Laundry (from the Charles Stross novels).

Fun candy read like most Kadrey novels - which is exactly what I am looking for when I read them! This one was a bit more disjointed than the Everything Box, but I do like the characters and the propels me through. Interestingly, I found this to have some similarities to Stephen King's Outsider in terms of plot.