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Astonishing Heroes

Astonishing Heroes

by Gary Phillips
Paperback
Publication Date: 23/01/2015

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Louis Trent is a high rolling hit-man plucked from Hell only if he kills for Heaven.

An anonymous city bureaucrat, The Reclaimer, senses what evil lurks via emanations from tenement walls.

In the 1970s, Onyx Adams, a tough, kung fu'ing Afro-wearing female private eye teams with a so-called b'wana devil, the Ghost Wolf, to thwart one of history's greatest villains back from the dead.

The Silencer is a Vietnam vet who returns home but the war goes on when a bomb injures him and kills the woman he loves.

A seeming sellout Uncle Tom agent provocateur, American Black, reveals other plans.

A weed smoking, easygoing inner city teen working in an old folks' home inherits amazing powers and responsibilities from WWII-era heroine Victory Angel as Kidd Vee; and several of the heroes team up in the past and present to prevent a climate calamity by a fanatical billionaire.

In this anthology of 10 action-packed prose stories, veteran crime and mystery fictioneer and graphic novelist Gary Phillips (author of Big Water, Warlord of Willow Ridge, and co-editor of the acclaimed Black Pulp anthology) offers his rip-roaring revisionist take on the superhero genre - The Watchman meets Manchild in the Promised Land.

As a special to this collection, Phillips has written an original outing bringing together several of these characters in one adventure for the first time ever.

Inside you'll find tales of:

- American Black
- The Envoy
- Ghost Wolf
- Kidd Vee
- Onyx Adams
- The Reclaimer
- The Silencer
- Terror Flame
- Victory Angel Published by iPulpFiction.com

ISBN:
9780692375266
9780692375266
Category:
Short stories
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
23-01-2015
Language:
English
Publisher:
iPulpFiction.com
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
228.6x152.4x12.45mm
Weight:
0.39kg

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