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ISBN10: 1250801761
ISBN13: 9781250801760
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Published: Feb 7 2023
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.97
Height: 1.03 Width: 5.53 Depth: 9.36
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781250801760
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Published: Feb 7 2023
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.97
Height: 1.03 Width: 5.53 Depth: 9.36
Language: English
Named A BEST BOOK of the Year by NPR, The Sun Sentinel, Deadly Pleasures, and more
Anthony Award-winning writer Alex Segura delivers a masterful 1970s literary mystery (NPR) set in the world of comics that is as engaging as Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. (Sun Sentinel)
It's 1975 and the comic book industry is struggling, but Carmen Valdez doesn't care. She's an assistant at Triumph Comics, which doesn't have the creative zeal of Marvel nor the buttoned-up efficiency of DC, but it doesn't matter. Carmen is tantalizingly close to fulfilling her dream of writing a superhero book. That dream is nearly a reality when one of the Triumph writers enlists her help to create a new character, which they call The Lethal Lynx, Triumph's first female hero. But her colleague is acting strangely and asking to keep her involvement a secret. And then he's found dead, with all of their scripts turned into the publisher without her name. Carmen is desperate to piece together what happened to him, to hang on to her piece of the Lynx, which turns out to be a runaway hit. But that's complicated by a surprise visitor from her home in Miami, a tenacious cop who is piecing everything together too quickly for Carmen, and the tangled web of secrets and resentments among the passionate eccentrics who write comics for a living. Alex Segura uses his expertise as a comics creator as well as his unabashed love of noir fiction to create a truly one-of-a-kind novel--hard-edged and bright-eyed, gritty and dangerous, and utterly absorbing.
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