{"product_id":"2940149623518","title":"ASTONISHING HEROES: Shades of Justice","description":"“Everything you'd expect from a Gary Phillips story collection — solid, kick-ass pulp.”\u003cbr\u003e— Bobby Nash, 2013 Pulp Ark Writer of the Year \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLouis Trent is a high rolling hit-man plucked from Hell only if he kills for Heaven. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn anonymous city bureaucrat, The Reclaimer, senses what evil lurks via emanations from tenement walls. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the 1970s, Onyx Adams, a tough, kung fu'ing Afro-wearing female private eye teams with a so-called b'wana devil, the Ghost Wolf, to thwart one of history's greatest villains back from the dead. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Silencer is a Vietnam vet who returns home but the war goes on when a bomb injures him and kills the woman he loves. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA seeming sellout Uncle Tom agent provocateur, American Black, reveals other plans. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA weed smoking, easygoing inner city teen working in an old folks' home inherits amazing powers and responsibilities from WWII-era heroine Victory Angel as Kidd Vee; and several of the heroes team up in the past and present to prevent a climate calamity by a fanatical billionaire. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this anthology of 10 action-packed prose stories, veteran crime and mystery fictioneer and graphic novelist Gary Phillips (author of Big Water, Warlord of Willow Ridge, and co-editor of the acclaimed Black Pulp anthology) offers his rip-roaring revisionist take on the superhero genre – The Watchman meets Manchild in the Promised Land. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs a special to this collection, Phillips has written an original outing bringing together several of these characters in one adventure for the first time ever. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInside you'll find tales of: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• American Black\u003cbr\u003e• The Envoy \u003cbr\u003e• Ghost Wolf\u003cbr\u003e• Kidd Vee\u003cbr\u003e• Onyx Adams\u003cbr\u003e• The Reclaimer \u003cbr\u003e• The Silencer\u003cbr\u003e• Terror Flame\u003cbr\u003e• Victory Angel","brand":"iPulpFiction.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47075588833520,"sku":"2940149623518","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940149623518_p0.jpg?v=1763720379","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940149623518","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}