PN - 610 | Kill Monster by Sean Doolittle

When treasure hunters excavate the long-lost wreck of the Steamship Arcadia from a Kansas corn field, a buried creature awakens - a mindless brute made of accursed earth, shaped like a man, but in no way mortal. A century and a half after its creation, the golem's sole mission resumes: to assassinate a savage pro-slavery guerilla commander named "Bloody Bill" Wolcott. Wolcott, of course, is long dead, but his closest surviving descendant - a corporate IT burnout named Ben Middleton - is quite available.

Ben's life hasn't exactly gone according to plan, and he's learned from experience to expect the worst. But he's never faced the kind of doom posed by a 150-year-old mud monster with no "off" switch.

ID:  PN - 610