Whiteout by Greg Rucka and Steve Lieber
Rucka’s Queen and Country comic-book and novel series is at a temporary stopping point, so I thought I’d go back to Whiteout, the excellent graphic novel that contains the first appearance of British intelligence officer, Tara Chace. Chace is undercover, helping out U. S. Marshall Carrie Stetko, who’s been exiled to Antarctica because a former assignment went wrong. Members of a science expedition team keep turning up dead, and the investigation is slowed by the brutal weather, and sabotage. Stetko is a powerful heroine, and Chace (aka Lily Sharpe, in this book) is a good complement. Whiteout is a good story, well told in words and pictures, that will please fans of mystery and spy fiction.
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The ice is the windiest place on earth. Katabic winds blowing from the Polar plateau down to the ocean. Fast.
320 an hour kilometers fast, sometimes. With that sort of windchill, the temp plummets into the triple-digits.
Wind kicks up snow that’s lain on the Ice for thousands of years, tosses it through the air. Destroys visitbility, you can’t see six inches in front of you, can’t tell the ground from the sky.
That’s called a whiteout.
February 17th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
fun read! I haven’t read a graphic novel since Watchmen, and that was MANY years ago.
by the way, if you’re familiar with Watchmen, did you know they’re coming out with the movie?