I spent a month with this monster. You should, too.
Despite the influence of Roberto Bolaño’s “2666,” Sutler calls the protagonist of another open-ended epic to mind: Tyrone Slothrop of Thomas Pynchon’s “Gravity’s Rainbow,” a character who disappears from the book but whose presence can be felt on every page. “The Kills” has similar goals as “Gravity’s Rainbow”: to expose the greed and corruption that thrives in the economy of war.