This one comes at you as fast as Steve McQueen in a souped-up Mustang and as hard as Charles Bronson with a baseball bat. "Reckless is an absolute rush: on the same level as golden age Travis McGee novels and the hardest-hitting Richard Stark stories. Meet Ethan Reckless: Your trouble is his business, for the right price.
I love this book." - Damon Lindelof (Lost, HBO's Watchmen) Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips, the modern masters of crime noir, bring us the last thing anyone expected from them - a good guy - in a bold new series of original graphic novels, with three books releasing over the next year, each a full-length story that stands on its own. No one does crime fic like Brubaker and Phillips and their collaboration has never felt more new. in a serpentine plot that is equal parts Long Goodbye and Point Break.
"Imagine Redford at his peak, ambling through sun-drenched, eighties L.A. But when a fugitive from his student radical days reaches out for help, Ethan must face the only thing he fears. And the best new twist on paperback pulp heroes since The Punisher or Jack Reacher.Įd Brubaker and Sean Phillips, the modern masters of crime noir, bring us the last thing anyone expected from them - a good guy - in a bold new series of original graphic novels, with three books releasing over the next year, each a full-length story that stands on its own. You gotta have it.Sex, drugs, and murder in 1980s Los Angeles. „RECKLESS is an absolute rush: on the same level as golden age Travis McGee novels and the hardest-hitting Richard Stark stories. I love this book.” -Damon Lindelof (Lost, HBO’s Watchmen) No one does crime fic like BRUBAKER and PHILLIPS and their collaboration has never felt more new. “Imagine Redford at his peak, ambling through sun-drenched, eighties L.A. Working class setting covering up for a deeper societal rot, a battered, damaged (literally) protagonist against the beast, and all of it squirming and lunging through an over-lit early 80s L.A. “Oh man this book pushed EVERY crime fiction button for me. But when a fugitive from his radical student days reaches out for help, Ethan must face the only thing he fears…his own past. A bold new series of original graphic novels, with three books releasing over the next year, each a full-length story that stands on its own.
ED BRUBAKER and SEAN PHILLIPS, the modern masters of crime noir, bring us the last thing anyone expected from them-a good guy. Sex, drugs, and murder in 1980s Los Angeles, and the best new twist on paperback pulp heroes since The Punisher or Jack Reacher.
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