Cross finds himself confronting some very important, very protected, very dangerous people in levels of society where only one thing is certain - they will do anything to keep their secrets safe. Patterson boils a scene down to the single, telling detail, the element that defines a character or moves a plot along. It's what fires off the movie projector in the reader's mind.' MICHAEL CONNELLY

Ben Corbett is lawyer to the underprivileged and downtrodden in 1900s Washington, DC. Out of the blue, President Theodore Roosevelt invites Ben to the White House, asking him to investigate a resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan in Ben's own home town.

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I've been following Alex Cross since Along Came A Spider and I'm not ready for his story to end yet! This was a fast, fun ride and it did not disappoint.' Sephy is smart and courageous – the daughter of a powerful politician. Her relationship with her family, however, is very strained. Haaland, Aaron (March 25, 2010). "David Lapham Takes FAMILY VALUES to Horror Book CROSSED". Newsarama. Archived from the original on 2010-03-28 . Retrieved March 26, 2010. The trilogy is also dystopian literature. In Matched, the world in which the characters live is introduced as a utopian society. Unlike other modern dystopian works, the imperfect nature of the society is not made known until later in the novel. [9] It was important to Condie that the Society appeared three-dimensional. She wanted her readers to understand why the citizens of her society would submit to its control. Condie also comments on the fact that her heroine, Cassia, is still unaware of the dark nature of her Society. [10] Thus, Cassia and the readership come to these realizations together and develop YA fiction's theme of "coming of age". [9]

Crossed is a comic series written by Garth Ennis and drawn by Jacen Burrows (for the first ten issues). To describe it succinctly, this is what happens when Garth Ennis goes to his really bad place.In 2008 Ennis ended his five-year run on Punisher MAX to debut a new Marvel title, War Is Hell: The First Flight of the Phantom Eagle. Maybe if there had been something about the writing or the characters that made me feel anything other than total revulsion, I might have liked it more? <--LIE. Total lie. There's no way I could stomach that shit under any circumstances. Crossed: +100 Mimic (April 2018 to October 2018) by Gage and Pat Shend, continuing the story of Crossed +100 and humanity's renewed struggle for survival against the resurgent Crossed. No one in Washington is safe, but can Cross discover the truth before the killers set their sights on their ultimate target?

As Cross investigates the case, he receives a call from his deadliest adversary and his worst fears come true. Despite the gruesome brutality and unrelentingly bleak and hopeless story line, I still thought this was excellent. This is Garth Ennis at his most... whatever. He’s managed to take all (and I mean all) of the violence, sadism, torture, rape and inhumanity that people have inflicted on one another throughout our colorful history and created the ultimate mirror reflecting our worst natures in the form of ….the “crossed.” To be honest, there was never really going to be a volume two—William [Christensen, editor-in-chief/publisher of Avatar] would ask me regularly about the possibility, but apart from one or two vague scenes I pretty soon realised I had no more Crossed stories in me. I didn't want to force the issue, either, because I'm very pleased with Crossed and don't want to dilute it with a sequel that I hadn't the ideas to sustain. Callum is intelligent, ambitious and is often angry at the inequality he and other noughts face. He is sometimes conflicted but, in the end, he finds the courage to stand up for what he believes in. Multiple story lines woven into one keeps you interested and will make you hate yourself for finishing this book in one go. Where's number 27??? I want it now.'a b Morris, William (2013). "Review of Matched. Crossed. Reached". BYU Studies Quarterly. 52 (4): 181–184. ISSN 2167-8472. JSTOR 43039952. Johnson, Rich (February 16, 2010). "Interview: Garth Ennis Talks About Crossed". Bleeding Cool. Avatar Press. Archived from the original on 2010-02-18 . Retrieved February 16, 2010. The contagion spread across the entire world, with the Crossed killing, raping, engaging in cannibalism and maiming for fun, with governments and military overwhelmed; friends and family butchered each other with anything they laid their hands on, and cities were turned into vast charnel houses. Much of the Middle East was wiped out when Israel deployed nuclear weapons. The last organized act by the U.S. government was to shut down as many nuclear power plants as possible and then kill the nuclear scientists and technicians to prevent them from reactivating the plants. A few nuclear power plants were not reached in time, however, such as Wolf Creek in Kansas and Browns Ferry in Alabama, detonated by Crossed who removed the control rods. One by one, the remaining military bases are overrun. Soon human civilization is all but gone, and mankind is an increasingly endangered species. A controversial senator is found murdered in his bed. On the other side of town, a young girl has been savagely killed. Under pressure to solve both cases, Cross is faced with an impossible choice. In the webcomic Crossed: Wish You Were Here (written by Si Spurrier and drawn by Javier Barreno (Vol.1) and Fernando Melek (Vol.2)), former writer "Shaky" (short for Shakespeare) writes in his journal of life on the island of Cava off of the coast of Scotland, where he and a handful of other survivors try to have some semblance of society while desperately trying to keep the wandering Crossed at bay.

The new virus is triggered by the blue tablets, administered by the Society. As the virus mutates, those who have already been exposed to the first strain become immune. Cassia and Xander realize they are immune, but Ky contracts the new strain and becomes ill. The three go to Endstone, outside of the Society, and work with the Pilot to find a cure. Xander searches for the medical cure with a scientist named Oker. It is here that Oker reveals to Xander that the blue pills trigger the virus. Oker dies before the cure is made, but Cassia finds out that Oker has discovered the plant that will create the cure—Mariposa lily. Xander turns the flower into a cure and Cassia administers it to Ky, who begins to recover. The Pilot reveals to the group that a faction of the Rising wants him removed from leadership. The Rising has become infiltrated with Society members, and it becomes more difficult to distinguish the two groups and their goals. Indie dies in a plane crash after contracting the virus. classes over white people. But while the setting may be fictional, there are very strong links to recent and historical events in the Well, I would say because it's gory, but that just doesn't adequately describe the sort of graphic, stomach-turning violence that happens in this thing.

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Crossed is a creator-owned series from writer Garth Ennis and artist Jacen Burrows. [4] [5] It began with Crossed #0 on August 27, 2008, and all 10 issues have been released. Ennis and Burrow take as their premise in this series (though not in other work they do) that There Is No Hope. And if you are going to say that, they say, tell it like you mean it. One justifiable view of this work is that we need to be reminded of every evil thing we have ever seen, to show how terrible humanity can be--hey, we know about the Holocaust, the Inquisition, Hiroshima and so on. This is what will happen, in spades, if the apocalypse happens, they say! If the environment gets worse, if we in fact do have worldwide untreatable disease, what do you expect? A Love-in? Prepare yourself to scramble desperately for survival and try to imagine how you can preserve a shred of goodness and charity and humanity. The first series was originally optioned for an independently funded film, with Ennis writing the screenplay. [23] It was going to be financed by Trigger Street Productions and produced by Michael De Luca, Jason Netter, and Kevin Spacey. [24] In the end of 2012, however, Ennis announced that he and Avatar Press had recovered the rights to the franchise. They made plans to launch a series of webisodes in an attempt to generate interest for a feature film. [25] In March 2013 Crossed: Dead Or Alive, an upcoming series of live action webisodes written and directed by Ennis, was announced. DOA will be accompanied by an Ennis-penned tie-in webcomic that will expand and further develop the concepts of the film series and its characters. A goal was set to film all the episodes for Crossed: Dead or Alive season 1 in early 2014. [26] In the first volume, Shakespeare must deal with the logistics of living on an Cava with his group, under two men Rab and Don with very different leadership styles.