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Teenage gunsel-cum-aspiring-hero Mitzi (last name unknown) breezes into Heropa with twin 9 mm pistols blazing - only to be targeted for recruitment, betrayal and assassination. French femmes fatale, an out-of-touch super-powered elite, and one hell of an underlying mystery, figure heavily in this fusion neo-noir, science-fiction dystopia. Interweaving the scrappy one-liners is a story much more than the sum of its parts, concerning questions about grand creative process.
Author Bio
Andrez Bergen is an expatriate Australian author, journalist, DJ, photographer and musician, based in Tokyo, Japan.
Online: Facebook, Author Website, Blog, Twitter
Previous Titles
Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat (9780984559701), Another Sky Press, 2011. 100 Years of Vicissitude (9781780995977), Perfect Edge, 2012. Who is Killing the Great Capes of Heropa? (9781782792352), Perfect Edge, 2013.
Endorsements
“A new millennium pastiche of every noir motif there is but done as a stylized, digitized, mind-bending visual rhapsody that’ll leave you feeling like you’ve been slapped in the face by a French femme fatale.” (Graphic Policy)
Promotional Plans
Author's strong existing network within the noir fiction, comicbook, and music industries. Author’s extensive community/network/group (Facebook/Twitter/Google/Tumblr).
USP
A blend of hardboiled noir, crime, pulp and humour with the surreal—featuring superheroes—that fllters into the contemporary zeitgeist of self-aware cultural nuggets like Joss Whedon's Avengers or Buffy, and then drifts into the classic terrain of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe.
Competing Books
The Maltese Falcon 9780679722649, by Dashiell Hammett
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 1929
Categories
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS (General)(CGN004010) -> Crime & Mystery(CGN004010)
FICTION (General)(FIC055000) -> Dystopian(FIC055000)
FICTION (General)(FIC022000) -> Mystery & Detective (General)(FIC022000)
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Publication Date
November 2016
Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-78535-562-2
$15.95 | £9.99
8.5x5.5 inches | 216x140 mm
200PP
e-book
ISBN: 978-1-78535-563-9
$6.99 | £3.99
Library of Congress
2016944526
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