Synopses & Reviews
The first ten issues of the Eisner and Harvey Award-winning series is collected in hardcover for the first time! Written by Ed Brubaker (
Captain America) and Greg Rucka (
Detective Comics, 52), this series pitted the detectives of Gotham City's Special Crimes Unit against the city's greatest villains - in the shadow of Batman himself.
This volume collects two cases of the Gotham Special Crimes Unit. In the first, a cop is killed by Mister Freeze, and the squad is in a race against time to bring him in without the help of the Dark Knight. In the second story-the acclaimed, award-winning “Half a Life”-Detective Renee Montoya is outed as a lesbian and finds her work environment and personal life turned upside down. Things only become more complicated when shes kidnapped by Two-Face. This debut volume features an introduction by acclaimed mystery author Lawrence Block.