Spooks Book 1: The Fall of Babylon
Spooks Book 1: The Fall of Babylon, by Xavier Dorison, Fabien Nury & Christian Ross, Cinebook
IN CLASSIC Seven Samurai style Morton Chapel gathers his skill specific group of men to thwart a menace; odd men, strange bedfellows although their personalities are only hinted at, but all with individual talents, and needed for the challenges they will meet.
These challenges are revealed in their group name, the one Ullysses S Grant gave the first incarnation of them, SPecialists in the Odd and the OCult, the president’s Spooks.
Moore and O’Neill’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen hangs heavily over the premise of this story, but not in the way it unfolds and the directions it takes.
It’s 1901 and corruption of an unusual nature is causing unrest on the American East Coast, pillars of the community are acting oddly, marks are appearing then vanishing on people’s bodies, and people are dying fiendish deaths. The Spooks are called upon to put an end to this.
An evocative western occult thriller, deftly paced, featuring subtly detailed engrossing artwork.
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