By Francq & Van Hamme
Publisher: Cinebook
ISBN: 978-1-84918-020-7
If I can only persuade you with one reason to pick up this book then let it be the magnificent illustrations of Paris and Venice by Philippe Francq. Not just produced with an astounding attention to detail but beautifully coloured to create a wonderfully crafted atmosphere.
But let's not forget that this is also a Jean Van Hamme book, and a Largo Winch one to boot, so you're guaranteed some action and adventure and fair bit of intrigue too. Surely that's more than enough to whet the appetite.
The mysteries start on page one, with an unusual interview, and then by page two we've got a desperate moonlit chase through the streets and canals of Venice which ends in a hurried and bloodied fax becoming a man's final act. By the time we catch up with Largo, holidaying with Charity (from the first volume) in Paris, we discover he has a shadowy tail which leads to gunmen paying Charity's friend a surprise visit back in Venice.
The fax, it transpires, is a warning to Largo back at the New York offices, but someone is already trying to intercept it while Largo is busy learning about oil production and the problem of cartels. Only through luck does the message reach him and in dramatic fashion at that.
Largo has had experience of unscrupulous enemies using his friends against him before, so a warning message arising from the city in which his friend and occasional lover is staying is too worrying to ignore.
Wonderful writing, cracking characters and amazing art combine to create one of the best comic series to come out of Europe. Go on, spoil yourself.
And if you liked that: Grab the concluding part in volume six
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