Spring, 1994, Washington, D.C. -- While the Clinton Administration grapples with its domestic policies, a sinister plot is being masterminded six thousand miles away in Baghdad. By using $100 million as bait and spinning a deadly web of corruption, forgery, and terror, Saddam Hussein seeks to embarrass the U.S. with the ultimate revenge: to steal a treasured historical document and then destroy it before the world's media -- on July 4, 1994.

In Worth Any Price, the former crime lord Nick Gentry has been forced to join the elite group of Bow Street Runners. He is hired to find Charlotte Howard, an evil lord's runaway fiancй, and bring her back to the man she fears above all others. However, when Nick meets Lottie, he can't help wanting her for himself... and so they strike a scandalous bargain.

This is the graphic novel adaptation of Neil Gaiman's indomitable Coraline, intrepidly illustrated by P. Craig Russell


Now, if you're thinking fondly of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe or Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, you're on the wrong track. Neil Gaiman's Coraline is far darker, far stranger, playing on our deepest fears. And, like Roald Dahl's work, it is delicious. :-) Highly recommended!


[true, true! real joy to read :-) - stovokor]

Celia Vallerand fears for her life as she stares into the deep, arresting eyes of the dashing man who purchased her from the brigands who had abducted her. But it soon becomes clear that it's her virtue, not her life, that's in danger. The rugged, powerful renegade known only as "Griffin" arouses desires in Celia as dangerous as they are forbidden. And though she knows she must resist him, she fears she may be unable to do so.

But the magnificent adventurer is a man trapped in a perilous deception. And the shocking secrets he guards could deny him the love of the fair captive lady who has enslaved his reckless heart.

The Economist May 19th 2007 - Why America Fears China.
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