Geoff Johns, Author, Grant Morrison, Author, Greg Rucka, Author et al. DC Comics $19.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4012-1353-4
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hen this first of four volumes was serialized, its selling point was that it was a weekly, soap-operatic series happening in “real time,” a sort of 24
with superheroes, written by four major comics names. As a single book, it's a
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Greg Rucka and Nicola Scott. Image, $9.99 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-1-63215-675-4
Rowan Black is a New England-based cop who is secretly a witch. Writer Rucka (Gotham Central) brings his characteristically thoughtful take on procedural drama; Australian artist Scott (Earth 2) depicts Rowan's world in subtle ink washes. Rowan...
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Antony Johnston, Author, Christopher Mitten, Author, Greg Rucka, Author . Oni $8.95 (96p) ISBN 978-1-932664-35-5
This noir thriller, part of a series created by novelist Greg Rucka, is set in Armagh, Ireland, and it's all mood and gloom. Lauren Mullen, whose father was killed in front of her by IRA soldiers when she was six, shows up to run for office on a
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Greg Rucka, Author . Bantam $25 (308p) ISBN 978-0-553-80474-4
In Rucka's adrenaline-filled seventh novel to feature ex-bodyguard Atticus Kodika (after Patriot Acts
), Atticus and his ex-assassin lover, Alena Cizkova, are living under assumed names in the remote town of Kobuleti in the Republic of Georgia.
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Greg Rucka. Little, Brown/Mulholland, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-316-18230-0
Former Special Forces Master Sgt. Jad Bell must try to thwart a threatened terrorist attack on the U.S. in bestseller Rucka’s explosive follow-up to Alpha (2012). The capture of Vosil Tohir (aka the Uzbek), who was the main organizer of the...
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Greg Rucka. Little, Brown/Mulholland, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-316-18228-7
This pulse-pounding first in a new thriller series from bestseller Rucka (The Last Run) introduces special operative Jonathan “Jad” Bell. Back in the States and recently divorced after missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, Bell accepts a high-level...
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Greg Rucka, Author Bantam Books $23.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-553-10720-3
Having thrilled readers with his series about security expert Atticus Kodiak (Smoker, etc.), Rucka now shifts the focus here to Atticus's lover, Bridgett Logan, a private eye, a New York City cop's daughter and, unbeknownst to Atticus, a recovering...
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Greg Rucka, Author Bantam Books $22.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-553-10716-6
Vulnerable macho heroes are always in demand. Here, as in his two previous outings (Finder and Keeper), Rucka's Atticus Kodiak fits the bill in spite of his unlikely name. A personal security specialist (""bodyguard"" to the unenlightened) with a...
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Greg Rucka, Author Bantam Books $22.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-553-10098-3
FYI: A 16-page preview of Finder is appearing in the May paperback edition of Keeper.
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Greg Rucka, Author Bantam Books $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-10244-4
The world of the professional bodyguard provides the arena for this no-nonsense first novel. Atticus Kodiak, 28, is hired to protect Felice Romero, director of a Manhattan abortion clinic targeted by militant pro-lifers. The pros and cons of...
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Greg Rucka, Author Atria Books $23.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-671-03828-1
WHAP! POW! Pocket Books joins DC Comics to bring Gotham's Dark Knight to the trade shelves for the New Year, in a savage millennial tale of urban implosion, divided loyalties and vigilante justice. Rucka (Shooting at Midnight) valiantly transcribes...
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Greg Rucka, Author . Bantam $25 (338p) ISBN 978-0-553-80473-7
At the start of Rucka’s electrifying sixth thriller featuring bodyguard Atticus Kodiak (after 2001’s Critical Space
), Atticus is ready to settle down after years of chasing the deadly female assassin known as Drama and finally breaking...
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Greg Rucka, Author . Bantam $24 (412p) ISBN 978-0-553-80277-1
Tara Chace, the heroine of Rucka's Queen & Country comics, stars in her second novel (after A Gentleman's Game
). The special ops officer in Her Majesty's secret service is back in England, recovering from a mission in which her...
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Greg Rucka, Author . Bantam $24 (335p) ISBN 978-0-553-80276-4
Inspired by his Eisner Award–winning Queen & Country graphic novel series, the author of the adrenaline-charged Atticus Kodiac thrillers (Critical Space
) offers up this British cloak-and-dagger hardcover introducing Tara Chase, an...
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Greg Rucka, Author . Bantam $23.95 (307p) ISBN 978-0-553-80135-4
Loaded with grim, brooding detail—from the title quote (a Warren Zevon lyric) to the gallons of Jack Daniel's and beer with which rock musician Mim Bracca marinates her life—Rucka's latest thriller is bleakly atmospheric. His...
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Greg Rucka, Author, Critical Space, Author . Bantam $23.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-553-80132-3
The trouble with the old Tom and Jerry cartoons was that the mouse had all the moves. In Rucka's new thriller (after Shooting at Midnight), best read with a bag of popcorn in hand, the cat has learned a lot. The mice (so to speak) are the KTMH...
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Greg Rucka, Author, Marvel Comics, Manufactured by . Marvel $12.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-7851-1136-8
Wolverine, a brutish, surly loner, is the most interesting X-Man. Lucy, the teenaged waitress in the diner he frequents, nicknames him "Mean Man," but because she senses Wolverine is more sympathetic than he looks, suspects he has superhuman
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Greg Rucka, Author, J. H. Williams, III, Illustrator . DC $24.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4012-2692-3
On the surface, this is a fairly straightforward superhero thriller, in which the new (lesbian, tattooed, Jewish) Batwoman tussles with a crime-worshipping cult that's trying to poison Gotham City, and discovers how her personal history is...
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Greg Rucka, Author, Leandro Fernandez, Illustrator . Oni Press $14.95 (152p) ISBN 978-1-929998-49-4
This fun espionage thriller overflows with geopolitical intrigue. Written with obvious relish by Rucka, author of the Atticus Kodiak novels, and rendered in stark b&w, cinematic panels by Fernandez, this work
finds the British security team S.I.S
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Greg Rucka and Toni Fejzula . Dark Horse, $19.99 trade paper (136p) ISBN 978-1-61655-492-7
Rucka, known for writing some of the strongest women in comics (Tara Chase in Queen & Country, Renee Montoya in Gotham Central), takes on a very different kind of character here. Veil is a mysterious woman whom men find irresistible. From the moment
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Greg Rucka, Liam Sharp, and Laura Martin. DC, $16.99 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-1-4012-6778-0
Eisner-winner Rucka tries to uncover who Wonder Woman is as a person, beyond her powers and her association with fellow superheroes. Rucka is a Wonder Woman veteran, having written the character off and on for more than a decade. Rebirth, a massive...
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Greg Rucka, Author, Steve Rolston, Illustrator , illus. by Steve Rolston. Oni Press $11.95 (128p) ISBN 978-1-929998-21-0
The more screwed-up the protagonist, the better a spy story tends to be, and Rucka (who's also written a series of prose mystery novels) has come up with a memorably dysfunctional antiheroine in Tara Chace, a burned-out, amoral "minder" (
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Greg Rucka, Michael Lark, and Santi Arcas. Image (Diamond, dist.), $9.99 (96p) ISBN 978-1-60706-809-9
Forever Carlyle is the Carlyle family’s Lazarus, a scientifically enhanced soldier whose raison d’être is to protect the family and preserve its interests, whether they be political, economic, or personal. The Carlyles, along with a handful of other
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Greg Rucka and Michael Lark. Image, $34.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-63215-183-4
Imagine that the world has been divided into 16 territories, each ruled by a family that must constantly enforce its will and prepare for invasion if it is to maintain its power. This is the backdrop of the new book from the veteran team of Rucka (Go
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Greg Rucka, Author, J. G. Jones, Illustrator, Wade VonGrawbadger, Illustrator . DC Comics $17.95 (90p) ISBN 978-1-56389-914-0
Princess Diana, Wonder Woman's real identity, grew up steeped in the ancient Greek culture and society. As Wonder Woman, she's been through culture shock going from her distant home to the outside world. While she has adjusted somewhat to...
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