From the acclaimed DC Comics writer and the artist of the #1 New
York Times bestselling and National Book Award-winning illustrated
trilogy March comes a stunning crime noir graphic novel exploring the
intertwining threads of crime, conspiracy, racism, and insanity in the
post-World War II Deep South.
After World War II, tensions rise in a Southern city ruled by organized
crime, touching countless residents as they struggle to make sense of
the new world. A sudden act of violence sets off a series of bloody
events between the police and mafia as they lash out against one
another. As the violence worsens, desperation grows to stop it, by any
means necessary.
Told in multiple perspectives--from a seemingly untouchable mafia don,
to a gun-happy seasoned detective succumbing to the depths of his
schizophrenia, to a newly minted police lieutenant haunted by his recent
service in the war, and two African-American brothers, one mired in
corruption and the other leading a local militia in an effort to see
that justice is served--Two Dead is at once a white-knuckled and
unputdownable thriller, a roman à clef inspired by true events, and a
book about post-traumatic stress disorder and the underlying social
traumas of how war and segregation affect their survivors on all fronts.
