Desolation Jones

Graphic Novel · Paperback · 170mm x 258mm · 144pp · 9781845764005 · December 2006
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Michael Jones is a man irrevocably altered by a mysterious, year-long experiment called the ‘Desolation Test’. A former spy, he has moved to Los Angeles, itself a home for all manner of former spooks.Hired by a rich and secretive patriarch to retrieve a priceless lost pornographic film featuring Adolf Hitler, Jones becomes embroiled in murder, mischief and mayhem. But Jones has no time for any of it — and a very short fuse... Critically acclaimed author Warren Ellis presents a new kind of detective for a brutal new world.

Michael Jones is a man whose brain and body have been irrevocably altered by a mysterious, year-long experiment called the ‘Desolation Test’. A former spy, he has moved to Los Angeles, itself a home for all manner of former spooks.

Hired by a rich and secretive patriarch to retrieve a priceless lost pornographic film featuring Adolf Hitler, Jones becomes embroiled in a Chandleresque plot of murder, mischief and mayhem. But Jones has no time for any of it — and a very short fuse.

From critically acclaimed, fan-favourite author Warren Ellis (Transmetropolitan, Planetary) and renowned artist JH Williams III (Promethea, Batman) comes a new kind of detective... for a new and brutal kind of world. Warning: Adults Only!

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