you came to hear all about Lexicon, Max Barry’s deliciously nerdy thriller about killer poets.

Yeah, killer poets. And when I say killer, I’m talking gun-wielding, persuasive wordsmiths and not the kind that will do you in with their sighs and melancholy.

Lexicon opens with a confused guy named, Wil, being chased through an airport by men he doesn’t know. All Wil wants is to get into his girlfriend’s car and go home. That doesn’t happen. Instead he’s stuck with Eliot, a coy bastard who won’t tell Wil what’s going on or why there’s a trail of bodies following them as they try to escape. read more