Van Jensen – författare

The planet is dying, the rich are escaping, and absolutely nothing is what it seems in this thrilling new dystopian graphic novel.

The world burned. But the rich and powerful...they had a plan.

When society fell apart, a select group of billionaires had an escape hatch: a rocket aimed at the nearest habitable planet, a ship equipped with many of the luxuries of life on Earthwhy survive if you can't survive in style? Their every need is tended to by teenagers who are willing to act as slaves in return for the promise of a new life.

This is a good story. But, like so many stories, it is not true. Inside a great, sealed survival chamber, one slavea teenage girl named Persephonediscovers that the promised future of comfort is a myth. And with that knowledge, she must fight for her survival against the billionaires, who would gladly kill her to protect the hidden truth.

A massive asteroid hurtles toward Earth and humanity is braced for annihilation – but the end doesn’t come . . .

Because it isn’t an asteroid . . . it’s a three-mile-tall alien figure that comes to earth outside Little Springs, Nebraska. Dubbed ‘the giant’, its body apparently pierced by a blade, its arrival transforms this quiet red-state farm town into a top-secret government research site and major metropolitan area, flooded with soldiers, scientists, government agents, bureaucrats, spies, criminals, conspiracy theorists . . . and a killer.

As the sheriff of Little Springs, David Blunt thought he’d be keeping the peace among the same people he’d known all his life, not breaking up chanting crowds of conspiracy theorists, busting drugs gangs, dealing with doomsday cults, struggling to control town hall meetings about immigrants, and invaders and the construction of a mosque. Or trying to catch a cunning and seemingly untraceable killer.

As the series of brutal, bizarre murders strikes ever closer to home, Blunt – increasingly troubled by strange, unsettling dreams of a cosmos in chaos – throws himself into the hunt for a killer who seems somehow connected to the Giant. With bodies piling up and tensions in Little Springs mounting, he realizes that in order to find the answers he needs, he must first reconcile his traditional sense of things with the town, and the world, he now lives in – before it’s too late.

It has been three years since the massive alien the world dubbed 'Gulliver' fell, dead, out of the sky next to Little Springs, Nebraska.The city continues to grow, the population now into the hundreds of thousands. But there isn t enough water for everyone, and a plan to dam a nearby stream and pipe the water into town touches off protests - the dam is to be built over a sacred site, that of a long-ago massacre of the inhabitants of a Lakota village.Sheriff David Blunt is tasked with keeping peace between the protesters and authorities, a job which becomes impossible when one protester turns up dead in mysterious circumstances. David suspects foul play.His ensuing investigation pits him against an impossibly powerful nemesis, as he struggles to come to terms with events of the previous spring - when his best friend was revealed to be a killer, infected by a shard of the towering spire that still pierces the giant Gulliver s chest.And the U.S. military has a secret plan to cut into the colossal figure and begin an autopsy. It's an act that will yield new revelations about the nature of the giant - and risks spreading an infection that could endanger Little Springs, if not the world beyond. For the blade that pierced through the giant is spreading its infection - an alien life form with its own dark agenda.