Down below the abandoned skyscrapers and crumbling colonial architecture, beneath the buzzing lights and ragged billboards, is a fading, floundering city propped up by vice, extortion, and fear. This is BLACKSTONE - a dark, mirror image of Boston or Philadelphia. A city whose history dates back to the earliest days of our nation.
A once-mighty industrial titan - now teetering on the edge of oblivion. A city that used to mean something.
Blackstone public defender Jaime Nuñez - former baseball hero, now a divorced dad to a precocious teen - is always trying to do his best. But the criminal justice system is not without limits. When Jaime comes into an unexpected fortune and some surprising, super heroic tools, he discovers there might be another, more direct way to do some actual good in the world.
But can the masked man known only as The Dusk push back against decades of entrenched corruption without compromising his commitment to social justice...
Author Biography:
Alex Segura (Author) is an acclaimed, award-winning writer of novels, comic books, short stories, and podcasts. He is the author of Star Wars Poe Dameron: Free Fall, and the Pete Fernandez Mystery series (including the Anthony Award-nominated crime novels Dangerous Ends, Blackout, and Miami Midnight). Among his other works is the novel Secret Identity, which The New York Times called "wittily original" and named an Editor's Choice. NPR described the novel as "masterful," and it received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and Booklist. Secret Identity was nominated for the Anthony Award for Best Hardcover, the Lefty and Barry Awards for Best Novel, the Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel, and won the LA Times Book Prize in the Mystery/Thriller category. His next novel, the YA Spider-Verse adventure Araña/Spider-Man 2099: Dark Tomorrow, is out now from Disney Books/Marvel Press. Elizabeth Little (Author) is the best-selling author of Dear Daughter, Pretty as a Picture, and two works of nonfiction. Her crime fiction has been nominated for the Barry, Macavity, and CWA John Creasey Debut dagger awards, and she received the Strand Critics Award for Best First Novel. Her latest novel, Pretty as a Picture, was Barnes and Noble's monthly pick and a Los Angeles Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller. Her writing has also appeared in the New York Times, McSweeney's, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among other publications.
David Hahn (Illustrator) has professionally illustrated comic books for over 20 years, including issues of Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane, Marvel Adventures: The Fantastic Four for Marvel Comics, and Batman '66/Wonderwoman '77, Fables, and Fringe for DC Comics, as well as The Batman Handbook, licensed for Quirk Books. David was nominated for both an Eisner Award and an Ignatz Award for his creator-owned comic series, Private Beach, published by Slave Labor Graphics.
