Crossroad Blues: A Nick Travers Graphic Novel

by Ace Atkins, Marco Finnegan

Overview

After a New Orleans college professor goes missing while searching for the rumored lost recordings of bluesman Robert Johnson„who, as legend has it, sold his soul to the devil at a Mississippi crossroads Nick Travers is sent to find him. Clues point to everyone from an eccentric albino named Cracker to a hitman who believes he is the second coming of Elvis Presley. From the Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist turned New York Times bestselling author ACE ATKINS, and artist MARCO FINNEGAN, comes a thrilling tale of crime and mystery that brings the history of the blues and the Mississippi Delta to life on every page.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781534309685
Publisher:	Image Comics
Publication date:	04/25/2018
Series:	A Nick Travers Graphic Novel
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	925,421
File size:	34 MB
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About the Author

Ace Atkins is the author of thirty books, including twelve Quinn Colson novels, the first two of which, The Ranger and The Lost Ones, were nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Novel (he has a third Edgar nomination for his short story "Last Fair Deal Gone Down"). He is the author of nine New York Times-bestselling novels in the continuation of Robert B. Parker's Spenser series. Before turning to fiction, he was a correspondent for the St. Petersburg Times and a crime reporter for the Tampa Tribune, and he played defensive end for Auburn University football.

Editorial Reviews

LIBRARY JOURNAL — Blues historian Nick Travers has been trying to raise funds for a documentary about famous bluesman Guitar Slim but is sidetracked by attempts to locate a particularly well-versed professor of music history who has gone missing. Little does Travers know that his path will take him into the dreaded shadows of dark blues legends such as the cryptic Robert Johnson and up against eccentric characters, including a mystical black albino and a goat-loving hit man who looks and sounds like Elvis Presley. Enveloped in an ominous, surreal world of greed, secrets, and ruthless men, Travers is soon in over his head and forced to take action when his kidnapped girlfriend is used as a negotiating chip by murderers. Verdict Best-selling author Atkins (“Quinn Colson” series) and artist Finnegan (Lost Fair Gone Down), with letterer Peteri (Witchblade), realize a stark recounting of an Atkins novel of the same name, featuring black-and-white artwork that is coarse and blunt and a script that at times is static and ambiguous. Blues and urban legend buffs may find this entertaining.





"To me, Christmas just ain't Christmas without a full glass-no ice, thanks-and some deep blues. Ace Atkins' CROSSROAD BLUES is about as deep as it gets, and I doubt you'll regret it in the morning." -Cully Hamner, Red, The Question, Batman & The Signal

From the Publisher

11/01/2018
It's 1993. Nick Travers, a quarterback-turned-blues historian, sets off to track down a missing music history professor. The trail leads through the blues joints of rural Mississippi, since the lost academic was hot on the scent of the late legendary bluesman Robert Johnson and his recordings from the 1930s. In adapting the 1998 Atkins novel, Finnegan's raw black-and-greyscale art does the story more than justice. (Xpress Reviews 6/22/18)

Library Journal