unseen shadows fallen heroes issue 2
DESCRIPTION
This comic adaptation preview is based on the Amazon number 1 bestselling novel by Barry Nugent. The Hand discovers some disturbing information regarding the mercenaries who attacked him inTokyo. The revelations lead him to choose a course of action that may be more dangerous than the enemy he faces. In Paris a brutal murder spree forces government agent Luther Washington to seek help from a reluctant a former agent to help him unravel the mystery. Both are unaware that every step they take is being watched by the killer they hunt…TRANSCRIPT
Prologue.
New York.
“ONCE THEY LABEL YOU AS A KiLLER - THAT’S ALL YOU’LL EVER BE.”
“MAKE SURE YOU DON’T MAKE THAT MiSTAKE, BEN. KEEP
THiNGS CLEAN: NO GUNS, NO ViiOLENCE, NO PROBLEM.”
You OK?
WHAT DiD YOU FiND
OUT?
THAT’S THE CHUMP
WHO TRiED TO KiLL ME.
MAJOR CLANCY WALLENCHECK, HEAD OF SPECiAL OPS UNiT
BLACKLiGHT.
PROFESSiONAL BAD ASSES, JUST WHAT WE NEED.
FROM WHAT I CAN
PiECE TOGETHER, MOST OF CLANCY’S TEAM WAS
WiPED OUT DURiNG A MiSSiON iN CUBA.
IT'S SEEMS YOUR HUNCH WAS
RiGHT...
...THiS iS FROM OUR GOOD FRiEND,
ELiJAH.
NO CONTACT: THAT WAS THE DEAL. YOU'VE GOT TWENTY
SECONDS….
...YOU jUST MAKE SURE YOU
OBTAiN THE DiSK AND THE HAND DiES iN THE
EXPLOSiON AS AGREED.
...MY EMPLOYERS
WANTED ME TO iNFORM YOU THAT ONE OF THEiR
OPERATiVES WiLL TAKE CARE OF PEMROSE...
understood.
CLANCY AND A FEW OTHERS,
iNCLUDiNG JACK KELLY, HiS SECOND-iN-COMMAND, SURViVED THE MASSACRE
AND THEN DROPPED OUT OF SiGHT.
WELL, WE'RE iN THE SHiT
NOW.
WOULDN'T BE THE FiRST
TiME.
ANY LUCK WiTH THE DiSK I GOT FROM PEMROSE?
WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT'S
ON THAT DiSK; iT COULD BE THE KEY TO THiS
WHOLE MESS.
I’VE ALREADY CONTACTED ALEX AND PUT HiM TO WORK ON iT - BUT SO FAR NOTHiNG,
UNTiL HE HAS SOMETHiNG,
WE SHOULD MAKE FOR THE NEAREST NON- EXTRADiTiON
COUNTRY.
I DON'T GiVE A SHiT
WHO'S AFTER US, I’M NOT
RUNNiNG. BUT iF WE’RE GOiNG TO
DO THiS, THEN WE’RE GOiNG TO NEED
BACKUP.
OK,
DON'T EVEN THiNK ABOUT iT -
WE’RE NOT BRiNGiNG THAT PSYCHO iNTO THiS.
I DON'T WANT
HiM ANYWHERE NEAR US. WHEREVER HE
GOES, PEOPLE DiE.
YOU SAY YOU DON'T WANT TO RUN,
FiNE...
...BUT iF WE'RE GOiNG TO
SEE THiS THROUGH, THEN WE NEED THE
REVEREND. OTHERWiSE, I’M GONE. I
MEAN iT BEN.
DAMNED iF WE DO, DAMNED
iF WE DON'T.OKAY –
MAKE CONTACT.
YOU WON'T REGRET
THiS.
I ALREADY
AM.
IT'S LiKE FORT KNOX. I'VE NEVER SEEN SUCH COMPLEX ENCRYPTiON;
IT’S WAY OUT OF MY LEAGUE.
Los Angeles, Six years ago.
Wha...
...Hello?
…It’s three-thirty
in the morning Luther…
Versailles, FRANCE.
Mercure Paris, la defense hotel
KATHRYN?
IT’S LUTHER.
BUT I DO KNOW THE MEANiNG OF THE WORD
DEAD... ...AS iN YOU WiLL BE
iF YOU DON’T HAVE A GOOD REASON
FOR WAKiNG ME UP.
THERE WAS A TiME WHEN YOU DiDN'T
KNOW THE MEANiNG OF THE WORD SLEEP.
HOW FAST CAN YOU GET DRESSED?