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|title=The Kills

|sort=Kills, The

|publisher=Picador

|date=July 2013

|website=http://www.panmacmillan.com/thekills

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|summary=A collection of four related books, originally published as e-books, with a multi-media component, this Booker longlisted tome starts in with a corruption scandal in Iraq, takes in the fatal dangers of working on civilian reconstruction projects in that country, takes in a serial murder in Italy and ends with a sinister infatuation in Cyprus. Interesting, clever and very long, but ultimately it struggles under the layers of complexity and there's a frustrating lack of conclusion to most of the elements of the stories.

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Richard House's Booker-longlisted ''The Kills'' is a collection of four related books, originally published in e-book format between February and June 2013. In some ways, the e-book format is the natural habitat for House's creation as it includes a largely optional multi-media component to the story. It is a hugely ambitious piece about money, murder, greed, stories and where things start and equally where, if ever, they end. Covering more countries than feature in Michael Palin's passport, the book starts with corruption and embezzlement in a US civilian company working in the re-building of Iraq, and ends with a kind of ''Tales of the Unexpected'' story in Cyprus having taken in a gruesome story of murder in Naples.

The main strength of ''The Kills'' is its originality but for another, albeit more straightforward, book that you might also enjoy is [[Flight by Adam Thorpe]]. If the multi-media aspect intrigues you, another book that dabbles with these aspects, although with less production quality, is [[Far South by David Enrique Spellman]].

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