Two brothers: one, a man of God; the other, a man of the Mob. In a city on the edge of chaos, they'll do anything to survive.
The story begins in New York City... one hour into the future. Crime runs rampant, rogue cops patrol the rubble-strewn streets, predatory gangs steal anything that isn't nailed down, and the once powerful mafia Dons cower in fear in their tenement prisons. Someone is killing the mob chieftains one by one, and the last survivors call on Alonzo, the Family Man, to hunt down the murderer. But it won't be easy--not when Alonzo's own brother Charles, the gun-toting Monsignor of the corruption-ridden New York City police department, is a prime suspect.
"Jerome Charyn is a master." -Warren Ellis
"To finally have this collection between these two giants available in a single volume is a gift for which we can only hope to be worthy." -Howard Chaykin
"The tension established between Joe's cartooning instincts and the bleak subject matter produces a finished product satisfying to anyone serious about comics art." -Phil Hester
JEROME CHARYN is an award-winning American author. His first novel, Once Upon a Droshky, was published in 1964; and with his eighth novel Blue Eyes (1975), the debut of detective character Isaac Sidel, Charyn attracted wide attention and acclaim. With more than 50 published works, including novels, memoirs, graphic novels, short stories, plays, and creative nonfiction, Charyn has earned a long-standing reputation as an inventive and prolific chronicler of real and imagined American life. Two of his memoirs have been named a New York Times Book of the Year, and Charyn has received numerous awards, including a 1983 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in Fiction and a Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. A finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, Charyn has also been named Commander of Arts and Letter (Ordre des Arts et des Lettres) by the French Minister of Culture. Silver Wolves is his first young adult novel.
