Uncle Ivan taught him how to stay out of system. Then Tommy got sent away for killing a man who had it coming. Growing up his father Tommy and Uncle Ivan ran the best pickpocket outfit the city had ever seen. Professional Thief, Heist Virtuoso and Coward If you love a good noire crime thriller, read on… Meet Leo. When all goes to pieces will Leo run? What is he really running from? Is he the coward that everyone thinks …or is he something very very different?Ĭriminal: Coward by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips is the first in the Criminal series of noir crime fiction by an amazing and award winning creative team. Breaking every rule that has kept him safe.
Leo accepts.Īnd then he finds himself in a whole lot of pain. And haunted by the widow of a man who died on his last robbery.
In need of money to look after his Alzheimer suffering and drug addicted adoptive father Ivan. Under pressure from Seymour and his partner. And Seymour’s partner in this heist is a corrupt cop named Jeff. He takes more risks than Leo can stomach. Only problem is that Seymour is a gambler. Steal millions in blood diamonds from an evidence van on the way to court and get set for life. Seymour, an old colleague, comes to Leo with a big job. And he won’t work on any score that he doesn’t call the shots on.Īlso -when things go bad, Leo is very good at getting out. No working with crooked cops, drug addicts or other unreliable characters. Leo has rules, rules that keep him safe and out of prison. He’s also been very successful at staying under the radar of law enforcement. (Feb.Leo is a skilled pickpocket, an excellent thief and celebrated heist-planner. This is an ideal introduction for newcomers who want to take a walk on the grimiest side of the graphic underworld. Honing their 16-year collaboration (since 1999%E2%80%99s Scene of the Crime), Brubaker and Phillips are modern masters, who craft nail-bitingly tense worlds where nothing is black and white%E2%80%94Brubaker%E2%80%99s smart dialogue fusing with Phillip%E2%80%99s sharp, emotive noir artwork. When the job goes drastically wrong and Leo and an accomplice are forced into hiding, the situation steadily escalates, until Leo%E2%80%99s mettle is put to the most dire of tests.
Leo is wary of the job and his new associates, but the plan%E2%80%99s success hinges on his knack for clean getaways. The critically acclaimed series, from the creative team behind the superb Fatale, first published in 2007 and has been rereleased in handsome new editions, kicking things off with the story of Leo, a world-class professional pickpocket, whose gift for planning big-money heists is pressed into service by a pair of bent cops.
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