From The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Alan Moore & Kevin O'Neill
rampage through twentieth-century culture in this all-new adventure
haunted by totalitarian shadows and mechanical nightmares.
Sixteen years ago, notorious science-brigand Janni Nemo journeyed into
the frozen reaches of Antarctica to resolve her father's weighty legacy
in a storm of madness and loss, barely escaping with her Nautilus and
her life. Now it is 1941, and with her daughter strategically married
into the family of aerial warlord Jean Robur, Janni's raiders have only
limited contact with the military might of the clownish German-Tomanian
dictator Adenoid Hynkel. But when the pirate queen learns that her loved
ones are held hostage in the nightmarish Berlin, she has no choice save
to intervene directly, travelling with her ageing lover Broad Arrow Jack
into the belly of the beastly metropolis. Within that alienated city
await monsters, criminals, and legends, including the remaining vestiges
of Germany's notorious 'Twilight Heroes', a dark Teutonic counterpart to
Mina Murray's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. And waiting at the far
end of this gauntlet of alarming adversaries there is something much,
much worse.
Continuing in the bold tradition of Heart of Ice, Moore and O'Neill
deliver their sharpest thriller yet. Berlin is a grey city, but as
cultures clash and lives are lost in the explosive collision of four
unforgettable women, the shadows will grow blacker and the ground
redder, in the alleyways where thrive The Roses of Berlin.
