Two Dead (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781501168956)

From the acclaimed DC Comics writer and the artist of the #1 New York Times bestselling and National Book Award-winning illustrated trilogy March comes a stunning crime noir graphic novel exploring the intertwining threads of crime, conspiracy, racism, and insanity in the post-World War II Deep South.

After World War II, tensions rise in a Southern city ruled by organized crime, touching countless residents as they struggle to make sense of the new world. A sudden act of violence sets off a series of bloody events between the police and mafia as they lash out against one another. As the violence worsens, desperation grows to stop it, by any means necessary.

Told in multiple perspectives--from a seemingly untouchable mafia don, to a gun-happy seasoned detective succumbing to the depths of his schizophrenia, to a newly minted police lieutenant haunted by his recent service in the war, and two African-American brothers, one mired in corruption and the other leading a local militia in an effort to see that justice is served--Two Dead is at once a white-knuckled and unputdownable thriller, a roman clef inspired by true events, and a book about post-traumatic stress disorder and the underlying social traumas of how war and segregation affect their survivors on all fronts.

Author: Van Jensen, Nate Powell
ISBN-10: 1501168959
ISBN-13: 9781501168956
Publisher: Gallery 13
Language: English
Published: 11/19/2019
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 10.80h x 7.20w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2019
Publishers Weekly 11/04/2019
Booklist 11/15/2019 pg. 38
Shelf Awareness 01/03/2020