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It's been a year since Tracy was forced into working for the bad guys, & now men are turning up dead all over the city, in what appears to be mob-style hits. But since criminals don't go to the cops for justice - only Tracy can solve this crime.
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Marvel
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Set after "Lawless" and "No One Rides for Free", this volume follows Tracy Lawless as he attempts to free himself of his debt to Sebastian Hyde by looking into a string of murders where the victims were supposed to be untouchable.
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LibraryThing member Girl_Detective
Tracy Lawless is a killer, but only of those who deserve it. This is a slippery place to be, and Tracy doesn't exactly finesse it. He's having an affair with the boss's wife, can't figure out who is killing the boss's peers, and has a guy from his past on his tail trying to drag him back where he
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came from. Things don't end pretty, but there's a lot to satisfy in this story. I don't think we'll be seeing Tracy again, at least for a while. Show Less
LibraryThing member Disquiet
[Yeah, spoilers. Boilerplate, polite version: I promise that I don't "spoil" anything about this book that would have bothered me had I known about it in advance of reading this book. That said, I cannot think of anything I have ever read in my life that would have been spoiled had I known the
This is the first book in this series of hardboiled graphic novels that I didn't love, perhaps because it's the first to return to a character who has already had his share of time on the page.
Most likely, though, it has to do with a sense of far too much coincidence -- too many instances when people happen to be in the right place at the right time (or wrong, depending on your point of view) in order for the story to proceed. And the subplot, about a couple of dirty priests, one of them playing vigilante with a crew of teen henchboys, just doesn't have the fatalistic perfume of the earlier stories. Still, it's a pretty compelling read.
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plot-advancing facts. This is definitely not a Cliffs Notes–style detailed summary of the story. I have no interest in writing such a thing.]This is the first book in this series of hardboiled graphic novels that I didn't love, perhaps because it's the first to return to a character who has already had his share of time on the page.
Most likely, though, it has to do with a sense of far too much coincidence -- too many instances when people happen to be in the right place at the right time (or wrong, depending on your point of view) in order for the story to proceed. And the subplot, about a couple of dirty priests, one of them playing vigilante with a crew of teen henchboys, just doesn't have the fatalistic perfume of the earlier stories. Still, it's a pretty compelling read.
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