Tyler Cross: Angola

by Fabien Nury, Bruno (Illustrator)

Overview

What seemed like a risk-free gig that should have got him some easy cash turns into a fast-track to Hell for Tyler Cross.

A hell called "Angola," the biggest high-security prison in the United States, surrounded by swamps and crushed by the sweltering Louisiana sunshine. And then just to put the cherry on the cake, the Scarfo clan has put a price on his head, and there are a whole load of Sicilians among Tyler's fellow inmates. If Tyler ever manages to get out of this penitentiary hell, it sure won't be for good conduct.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781785867316
Publisher:	Titan
Publication date:	03/12/2019
Series:	Tyler Cross Series
Pages:	104
Product dimensions:	8.10(w) x 11.10(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

FABIEN NURY is an award winning French comics writer, with early successes such as Once Upon a Time in France, for which he received the 2011 prize for best series at the Angouleme International Comics Festival. He is most recently known for the original graphic novels The Death of Stalin and Death to the Tsar.

BRÜNO is an award winning, critically acclaimed artist and frequent collaborator of Fabien Nury.

Editorial Reviews

01/28/2019

Nury and Brüno (Tyler Cross: Black Rock) return to their noirish antihero Tyler Cross in this ongoing European import series. In 1947, professional criminal Cross ends up on the wrong end of a supposedly risk-free job and finds himself a prisoner in Louisiana’s Angola State Farms. The festering hellhole is mercilessly dictated over by sadistic warden Captain Kroeker and his small army of brutal guards, bolstered by a quartet of man-eating attack dogs (“Anyone thinking about running... me and my babies love hunting”). The inmates’ days are a back-breaking tapestry of chain gang slave labor, where the slightest infraction results in torturous beatings and sometimes outright murder. Tough guy Cross stands a better chance than most, but among the inmates are Sicilian mafiosi whose boss has a hit out on him for a mysterious past betrayal. While enduring ongoing trials (and many plot twists, including the prisoners’ sexual exploitation by the warden’s wife) with taciturn grit, Cross begins to plot an escape, made seemingly impossible by the prison’s remote location. Nury and Brüno deliver a taut script and stark, moody artwork rendered in black, blue, and searchlight yellows. As intricately woven as the first installment, this brutal, cool series remains recommended reading for crime thriller enthusiasts. (Mar.)

Publishers Weekly

Tyler Cross: Angola is the perfect graphic novel for those sick of superheroes. . . . for those willing to eat a little darkness, this graphic novel delivers with the type of intensity not seen in American fiction since the heyday of Jim Thompson, Charles Williams, Charles Willeford, and the rest of the Gold Medal hooligans.” -New York Journal of Books

"As intricately woven as the first installment, this brutal, cool series remains recommended reading for crime thriller enthusiasts" - Publisher's Weekly

"a graphic novel for grown-ups and an inherently fascinating, compulsive, page-turner of a read from beginning to end! " - Midwest Book Review

"If you’re a fan of old-school crime fiction, “Angola” will provide an excellent diversion" - Mystery Tribune

"A spectacular ride. Angola is a first rate piece of noir crime fiction" - Slings And Arrows

"Intense and dark. Nury manages to supply something different, while staying deeply entrenched within the noire genre" - Grovel

"Fast, bloody, witty and sharp ... The occasional sly touch of humour rounds off this exhilarating story" - NB Magazine

“A darkly entertaining read” - Crime Review

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