Friend of the Devil (A Reckless Book)

Ed Brubaker author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Image Comics

Published:27th Apr '21

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Friend of the Devil (A Reckless Book) cover

The next book in the red-hot Reckless series is here!

Bestselling crime noir masters Ed Brubakerand Sean Phillips are back with another new original graphic novel featuringtroublemaker-for-hire Ethan Reckless.

It's1985 and things in Ethan's life are going pretty well... until a missing womanshows up in the background of an old B-movie, and Ethan is drawn intoHollywood's secret occult underbelly as he hunts for her among the wreckage ofthe wild days of the '70s.

"No one does crimefic like Brubaker and Phillips, and their collaboration has never felt more new.Explosive. Vital. And yes... reckless." - Damon Lindelof (LOST, HBO'sWATCHMEN)

Another hit graphic novel from theaward-winning creators of PULP, MY HEROES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN JUNKIES, CRIMINAL,and KILL OR BE KILLED -- a must-have for all Brubaker and Phillipsfans!

And look for the next standalone bookin the Reckless series in October!

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY -- Ghosts of the 1960s and '70s haunt this bruising second entry in Brubaker and Phillips's bloody-knuckled L.A. noir series. It's 1985 and ex-FBI agent and current paladin for hire Ethan Reckless is grinding through private-eye cases, mourning his father, and losing himself by watching old sitcoms at his shuttered movie theater office. Falling hard for Linh Tran, a tough-as-nails library clerk, he agrees to help find her sister Maggie, who vanished into the Hollywood fleshpots years before. After spotting Maggie in the background of a crummy exploitation flick, Ethan begins pulling at the tangled threads of a seedy operation and unravels a tale of the city's fall from hippie optimism, with movie producers taking advantage of fresh-off-the-bus ingenues, an Aleister Crowley meets Charles Manson cult, and Nazi skinheads (“for some reason, there always had to be skinheads”). Ethan pursues his leads doggedly but with a baked-in cynicism, knowing that after solving the case he and Linh would just “wait for the truth to destroy us.” The art is varied, richly colored, and grittily textured as old film stock. Despite the series' dour lead, the sharp cultural references, bone-deep knowledge of the Southland, and pulsing through line of righteous heroism will make readers eager for Ethan's next reluctant adventure. (May)


ISBN: 9781534318366

Dimensions: 254mm x 178mm x 25mm

Weight: 572g

104 pages