Andy Clarke

For over a century, the Court of Owls has ruled Gotham City in secret - their reach inescapable, their power unstoppable. Until they battled the Batman. Gotham's vigilante protector managed to escape the talons of the Court with his mind and body barely intact. The Dark Knight managed to win the battle with his deadly new aggresors, but certainly not the war. Batman was just the first part of their conquest. Now they have their sights set on something

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Oswald Cobblepot's desire to be loved by Gotham City is answered when he puts a hit on Batman, only to face dangers of his own when the Joker returns and new villian, Emporer Penguin, arrives in the city.

"Witness the twists and turns as Bruce Wayne takes the final steps toward his destiny and confronts the dangers of Gotham City at this point in time. Batman: Zero Year features secret moments from Bruce's training abroad, run-ins with aspiring district attorney Harvey Dent, and how Bruce learned to work with his new ally, Lieutenant Jim Gordon. This collection spins into total darkness as the Riddler stirs up chaos in Gotham City in the "Secret City,"...

Boris Stavrogin, also known as the Tsar, controls Moscow's criminal underground and now he has set his sights on controlling Gotham as well. Batman travels to Russia to deal with the problem, but first he must face the Tsar's secret weapon, the deadly man-beast called "The Bear."

"Finally triggered into his safe space by the ghastly revelations of his evil offsrping, Jimmy Regent, Britain's number one super-spy, finds himself locked away in a rubber room. But as Jimmy starts his new life bouncing off the walls, his fellow agent Nancy uncovers the truth behind our hero's gruesome fate--and realizes she's going to have to fight the bad guys solo...or is she?"--Back cover.

Based on the seminal novel by John Edward Williams, Gabe Polsky's epic frontier adventure, Butcher's Crossing, is a riveting commentary on human nature, ambition, masculinity, and man's relationship to his natural environment. A gritty story about buffalo hunters in the Old West. Will Andrews has left Harvard to find adventure. He teams up with Miller, a mysterious frontiersman offering an unprecedented number of buffalo pelts in a secluded valley....

When Air Force One is shot down by terrorists leaving the President of the United States stranded in the wilderness, there is only one person around who can save him, a thirteen-year old boy called Oskari. In the forest on a hunting mission to prove his maturity to his family, Oskari had been planning to track down a deer, but instead discovers the most powerful man on the planet in an escape pod. "In the rugged coutryside of Finland, a young thirteen-year-old...