Deadshot, the assassin for hire who never misses, faces new and deadly challenges in this new collection. Spinning out of the hit 1980s series SUICIDE SQUAD, this bullet-ridden tale sends Deadshot on a solo missing to kill a crime boss known as El Jefe - only to learn that the men who sent him on this mission have ulterior motives. And while Deadshot stalks his prey, his therapist is trying to uncover what drives him to kill. Collects DEADSHOT #1-4, BATMAN #369 and DETECTIVE COMICS #474 and518.
One of the stars of this yearÕs highly anticipated action blockbuster takes aim at a shocking solo adventure in SUICIDE SQUAD MOST WANTED: DEADSHOT, from writer Brian Buccellato (THE FLASH) and artist Viktor Bogdanovic (BATMAN: ARKHAM KNIGHT) Ña high-octane thriller that will blow you away! SHOOT TO THRILL! Floyd Lawton is the deadliest marksman in the worldÑbut there are targets even the legendary mercenary known as Deadshot hasnÕt been able to hit. As a longtime member of the Suicide Squad, he does the bidding of his ruthless supervisor Amanda Waller, killing whomever she says needs killing before heading back to Belle Reve Penitentiary to reload. And when the Squad saddles him with a new partner, the time to take the safety off has come. Now DeadshotÕs on his most personal mission of all: heÕs going to kill the parents who made him the manÑand the murdererÑhe is today. But FloydÕs far too valuable an asset to let loose, and the Suicide Squad will stop at nothing to put this lone gunman back in their arsenalÑincluding threaten the one person he truly cares about. DeadshotÕs about to learn the hard way that when it comes to weapons, thereÕs always a bigger gunÉ Collects stories from SUICIDE SQUAD MOST WANTED: DEADSHOT 1-6.
High-tech adventure from the author of Flight Signals and Signal: Blackbird. Deadshot is the code name for the newest, most powerful target acquisition system ever developed. In the right hands, it will eliminate military terrorism forever. But, in the wrong hands, it will destroy millions of innocent lives. . . .
In this follow-up to the highly successful Kill Zone, former Marine sniper Kyle Swanson faces his most deadly enemy yet, a legendary enemy sniper working with a fringe Islamic organization that has created a terrifying new weapon of mass destruction In Baghdad's Green Zone, an Iraqi scientist is murdered just before he is to reveal the monstrous secret that Saddam Hussein took to his grave: the Palace of Death, home to a chemical weapon that Islamic militants quietly have been developing and whose formula is nearly complete. The assassination is the work of a mysterious sniper called Juba, who was originally trained by the British but now works with a twisted mastermind determined to wrest leadership of the terrorist world from Al Qaeda. Kyle Swanson, once the top sniper in the Marine Corps, has become the key member in a secret special operations team known as Task Force Trident. When Juba tests the new weapon by killing hundreds of people at a British royal wedding in London, Swanson is assigned to hunt down his old special ops rival. The birth of a new reign of global terror can be stopped only by a confrontation between the two best snipers in the world, a duel in which the first shot wins. Usually.
Is it a death wish that makes Floyd Lawton put on the mask of Deadshot? Or is something more sinister pulling at Floyd when he becomes a relentless assassin who feels nothing for his victims?
Deadshot...once he sets his sights on a target, they're as good as dead. You may have been following Deadshot's story in the pages of SUICIDE SQUAD, but now he takes a leave of absence from his monthly appearances for his own 4-issue mini-series. What's the story behind the world's deadliest shot? Where did he come from to take on Batman and become part of the Suicide Squad? And does he really have a death wish of his own? The answers are here as Deadshot confronts his past...but the jury's still out on whether he's got a future.
“THE WAR OF JOKES AND RIDDLES” part four! War is hell. Unless it’s in Gotham City, where it’s so much worse. The clash between The Joker and the Riddler continues to escalate, with the rest of the city’s villains picking sides and joining in. In the midst of the battle, Batman must try to save whoever he can while knowing he will forever be haunted by those he can’t.
Sometimes Cupid has his own agenda. Carpenter Peter takes his hyperactive ten-year-old nephew to play in the park with his home-made bow and arrows -- but makes the mistake of closing his eyes for a minute. Alerted by a yell of pain, he’s mortified to find that Kevin has shot a tall, handsome stranger in the rear end. Especially when Kevin suggests Peter should kiss it better! Cultured lawyer Edward doesn’t seem to mind. An embarrassing encounter leads to a hot date -- but Peter's guilty secret about Kevin’s father could undo all Cupid’s good work, and Edward’s flair for the dramatic isn’t exactly helping!
From Amazon Bestselling Crime Fiction Author Jack Patterson ... Fans of Nelson DeMille, Stieg Larsson and Gillian Flynn will love this exciting mystery thriller from bestselling author Jack Patterson as intrigue and conspiracy drips off each page. "Small town life in southern Idaho might seem quaint and idyllic to some. But when local newspaper reporter Cal Murphy begins to uncover a series of strange deaths that are linked to a sticky spider web of deception, the lid on the peaceful town is blown wide open. Told with all the energy and bravado of an old pro, first-timer Jack Patterson hits one out of the park his first time at bat with Cross Hairs. It's that good." - Vincent Zandri, bestselling author of THE REMAINS "You can tell Jack knows what it's like to live in the newspaper world, but with 'Dead Shot', he's proven that he also can write one heck of a murder mystery. With a clever plot and characters you badly want to succeed, he is on his way to becoming a new era James Patterson." - Josh Katzowitz, NFL writer for CBSSports.com & author of Sid Gillman: Father of the Passing Game "Jack's storytelling feels as natural as James Patterson's, and the short-chapter setup is the literary answer to Lay's potato chips: you just want one more and before you know it, you've gone through the whole thing." - David Bashore, The Times-News, Twin Falls, ID * * * * * * PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: Working as a journalist at a small weekly paper in rural Idaho, Cal Murphy begins losing his big city dreams of writing for a metro paper before his passion is reignited after three high school star athletes are found dead in a 24-hour period. With local law enforcement remaining mum and unhelpful, Cal must dig into the tragic deaths of the teens to uncover the reason for the shroud of secrecy and disinformation. As he and fellow photographer Kelly Mendoza attempt to make sense of bizarre circumstances that led to the teens' deaths, Cal makes a chilling discovery, uncovering a vast conspiracy that grows darker with every twist and turn. With a mastermind determined to silence Cal and Kelly for good, the young reporters wind up on the run in search of way to expose this conspiracy. But first they must decide if their lives are worth the risk to reveal the truth. * * * * * * *
