Synopses & Reviews
Welcome to the era of the hypercorporation, business entities so sprawling and vast that they field private armies and buy entire nations outright. These corporate empires are constantly engaged in covert battles for market dominance, and the general public sees and knows nothing as they are used as pawns in this global chess game.
Joanna Dark, an operative of the Carrington Institute, has sworn to bring down the dataDyne Corporation, the largest, most pervasive hypercorp in the world. But Joanna's vengeance is personal: She holds dataDyne responsible for the murder of her father and will do anything to bring them down. Returning from a field operation that turned bloody, she is exhaused, wounded, and in desperate need of downtime...but the murder of two prominent corporate officials have put the Carrington Institute on high alert. Someone out there is single-handedly redefining the term "hostile takeover" and has placed the Carrington Institute and its enigmatic founder, Daniel Carrington square in the gun sights of every hypercorp on the planet.
It appears that each murder has been carried out by none other than Joanna Dark.
In hopes of clearing her name, and the Carrington Institute, Joanna must battle ghosts from her past, high-tech mercenaries who want her dead, and a killer who could be wearing anyone's face...
Review
"Nobody does it better. This is a femme the boys will lust after and the gals will cheer for and visa-versa. Kick-ass has a new pseudonym, it's perfect." Crime Spree Magazine
Synopsis
With the offices of the Carrington Institute being systematically annihilated by unknown forces, secret agent Joanna Dark is assigned to hunt down and destroy the source of the deadly attacks, a quest that plunges her into a bloody confrontation with hypercorp dataDyne and into a global conspiracy that has been shaping the entire world for decades. Original. 150,000 first printing.
Synopsis
The war between dataDyne and the Carrington Institute is heating up. Carrington offices around the globe are being systematically targeted and destroyed by unknown forces, and the casualties are mounting, and more importantly profits are dwindling.
Joanna Dark, fresh from her first mission codenamed Initial Vector and now operating as a full-fledged secret agent for the Carrington Institute, is assigned to hunt down and destroy those responsible for the attacks. But her search for the faceless enemy leads her not just into another bloody battle with hypercorp dataDyne but headlong into a global conspiracy that's been shaping the world for decades.
Synopsis
Continuing the epic storyline of Joanna Dark and the near-future world of corporations at war from the bestselling Xbox 360® game Perfect Dark Zero®
Synopsis
The war between dataDyne and the Carrington Institute is heating up. Carrington offices around the globe are being systematically targeted and destroyed by unknown forces, and the casualties are mounting, and more important profits are dwindling. Joanna Dark, fresh form her first mission--Codenamed INITIAL VECTOR--and now operating as a full-fledged secret agent for the Carrington Institute, is assigned to hunt down and destroy the source of the attacks. But her search for the faceless enemy leads her not just into another bloody battle with hypercorp dataDyne--but headlong into a global conspiracy that's been shaping the world for decades.
About the Author
Greg Rucka is the author of nearly a dozen novels, five featuring bodyguard Atticus Kodiak, and two featuring Tara Chace, the protagonist of his Queen & Country series. Additionally, he has penned several short-stories, countless comics, and the occasional non-fiction essay. In comics, he has had the opportunity to write stories featuring some of the world's best-known characters--Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman--as well as penning several creator-owned properties himself, such as Whiteout and Queen & Country, both published by Oni Press. he lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife, author Jennifer Van Meter, and his two children.