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Kill Switch: America’s Favourite Blood Sport Puts Fifteen Teams of Criminals in a Fight to the Death Kindle Edition

by Sean E. Britten (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.2 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
‘Slayerz’, it’s America of the not-too-distant future’s favourite bloodsport. Fifteen pairs of criminals taken from either death row or a life sentence enter the arena and only one team leaves. Each team of two are linked together by a device called a ‘kill switch’. If one contestant dies they’ll take the other with them, forcing the pairs of ultra-violent odd couples to work together or perish.

When ex-police detective James Hageman is recruited by the Slayerz’s producers he sees the deadly game as a potential second chance. But paired up with one of the worst serial killers in living memory, James begins to question what the true cost will be if they manage to slaughter their way to the finish line and go free.

Up against hulking Nazis, crazed cannibals, Yakuza assassins and assorted hitmen, lunatics and killers nothing is for certain or off limits. The only rule is the team that slays together, stays together.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01N05XZ5F
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 11, 2016
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1.0 MB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 243 pages
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  • Selbinius
    5.0 out of 5 stars All the Violence You Can Handle
    Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2018
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    This is not Great Expectations, but if you're looking for non-stop action, outlandish characters, dark humor and fountains of gore, this is your novel. Kill Switch is essentially about a Hunger Games-like competition in which infamous killers and other criminals are pitted against each other in pairs for public entertainment. In tone, it's reminiscent of the original Robocop, complete with goofy, black commercials that are my favorite part of the story. It's not a stretch to say this could easily be made into a movie, the kind of thing Schwarzenegger or Stallone used to make in their primes, and I wouldn't be surprised to see it on the big screen someday.
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  • Leland
    4.0 out of 5 stars Cheesy, Gory Fun
    Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2017
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    At first look, I wasn’t too impressed with Kill Switch. There are some glaring misspellings (I saw ‘defenceless’ used more than once) and reoccurring punctuation errors. There are also a number of other novels with the same name, and the premise is reminiscent of The Condemned, a lackluster WWE vehicle that saw convicts purchased by a wealthy television producer pitted against each other for a shot at freedom. Explosive ankle monitors tracked the convicts and added a gory twist to the plot.

    Like the WWE’s scriptwriters, the author eschews nuanced characters in favor of a diverse collection of stereotypes. The characters’ nicknames have a ridiculously campy feel: we’re introduced to Jacquelyn Hyde and Lucy Loveless, Christmas Daye, Miller Thyme, and Sy Borg, among others.

    There’s not much in the way of character- or plot-building, and the promised conflict between the bad-cop protagonist and his serial killer partner doesn’t materialize until the last few pages. The upshot of the lack of character-building, however, is that there’s little to break the flow of the action– and the fast-paced action and over-the-top gore are where Kill Switch shines.

    It’s not a terribly long read, and Sean Britten keeps the tension cranked up throughout so its doubtful you’ll want to put it down. I could have finished this in a day if I hadn’t had to go to work. If you’re looking for some fast, campy, violent action, Kill Switch absolutely satisfies.
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  • Brian L. Parker
    5.0 out of 5 stars Guilty fun!
    Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2017
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    Ok, to be honest, I didn't know what to expect when I started reading Kill Switch. I was, of course, immediately reminded of the 1980s movie The Running Man...however, outside of the style of the contest, it immediately became clear that was where the similarities ended.

    Where Ben Richards was an innocent man, wrongly imprisoned, James Hageman is not innocent and not a good guy. Teamed with a true sociopath, the two of them battle their way through the Slayerz arena in a gore-filled, bloody good time.

    Oh, and the P.E.T.P. loonies are exactly the type of people who'd emerge in this situation...
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  • Matt McAbee
    3.0 out of 5 stars Bloody thrill ride
    Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2018
    Detective James Hageman was serving life sentence until he was recruited in to the show Slayerz. A brutal contest between 15 pairs of convicted criminals. The prize is freedom for the winning pair, the cost for the losing teams is death, the rules, kill or be killed. Detective Hageman is paired with Dali one of the nations most notorious serial killers. Together as a team of good and evil can they overcome the odds and survive? This book is a violent blood-soaked look at a very demented game show were the ratings are killer.
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  • Cheryl Stout
    4.0 out of 5 stars Cheesy, violent gorefest
    Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2019
    In the future, a bloody New United States reality television show called Slayerz pits fifteen pairs of convicts from either death row or life sentences to a gladiator-style televised mess of body parts and blood.

    The fights to the death happen in an arena and if one of the pair dies, the other dies in a minute.

    Ex-cop James Hageman is paired with Dali Dawson, the Babyface Killer. There are serial killers, Nazis, samurai killers, and more all on the rampage because the last pair alive is offered freedom.

    There wasn't much character development but there was fast-paced action all the way through the book.

    I'm now on the way to read the sequels: KILLER SWITCH: SERIAL ESCALATION and KILL SWITCH: FINAL SEASON.

    I received this book from BooksGoSocial through Net Galley in the hopes that I would read it and leave an unbiased review.
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  • mycanoe
    5.0 out of 5 stars Hunger Games for the criminally insane
    Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2016
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    Delightful! I know that sounds strange describing a brutally violent book, however Kill Switch is engaging, hard to put down and very well written, and that to me makes it delightful.
    Setting it sometime in the future allows the author to create weapons that don’t exist and those weapons are as mean and as deadly as the people using them. We also get a glimpse of the author’s wickedly warped sense of humor with the ‘commercials’ between chapters.
    This is an author to watch.
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  • Keith M.
    4.0 out of 5 stars 30 hardened crims armed to the teeth...what could go wrong?
    Reviewed in Australia on October 29, 2019
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    What a great concept! It's a new TV show coming to you in the not too distant future. What's it called? Slayerz! Thirty hardcore criminals are placed into teams of two at random points in the arena, which is a huge area in which there are buildings, rubble, car bodies and plenty of places to hide. James is a former cop down on his luck, but Slayerz might just be the second chance he's been waiting for...problem is, he's paired with one of the worst murderers in living memory. Oh, and if one of them dies, a contraption attached to the forearm of the other (the kill switch) injects them with a lethal concoction of drugs.

    This book was fast moving with plenty of action. I was cheering for James and hoping he'd make it through, but sometimes there's not always a happy ending. Wait, so did he make it or not? Well...you'll have to read Kill Switch for yourself to find out!

    I liked the little advertisements at the beginning of each chapter as well. I could imagine it being broadcast from some several thousand inch TV screen hanging off the side of a sky scraper. It reminded me of a mix of Blade Runner and Fifth Element.

    Definitely worth a read!
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