High Crimes
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People die every year on Mount Everest. This year willbe murder.
Zan Jensen, on the run from herpast, has landed in Kathmandu, where she works as a climbing guide for richtourists. On the side, she and her partner, Haskell, moonlight as high-altitudegraverobbers: extorting money from the families of the many dead bodies theyfind littering the peaks of the Himalayas to bring them down and send them home.When a body at the summit of Mount Everest shows up with a jackpot of statesecrets embedded in its skin, they’re put in the crosshairs of agovernment agency bent on recovering the body and eliminating any witnesses.It’s a race to the top of the world, where Zan will fight to findsalvation in the deadliest place onEarth.
Collecting the two-time Eisner-nominatedcomic by Christopher Sebela (CROWDED, SHANGHAI RED, WE(L)COME BACK) and artistIbrahim Moustafa (JAEGER, MOTHER PANIC, JAMES BOND), High Crimes is ahigh-altitude noir that’s been called “the perfect thriller, withbig stakes, damaged characters, dark pasts, and just the right ratio ofhumor-to-corpses." (Chelsea Cain, NYT bestselling author of the ArchieSheridan-Gretchen Lowell series.)
Zan Jensen, on the run from herpast, has landed in Kathmandu, where she works as a climbing guide for richtourists. On the side, she and her partner, Haskell, moonlight as high-altitudegraverobbers: extorting money from the families of the many dead bodies theyfind littering the peaks of the Himalayas to bring them down and send them home.When a body at the summit of Mount Everest shows up with a jackpot of statesecrets embedded in its skin, they’re put in the crosshairs of agovernment agency bent on recovering the body and eliminating any witnesses.It’s a race to the top of the world, where Zan will fight to findsalvation in the deadliest place onEarth.
Collecting the two-time Eisner-nominatedcomic by Christopher Sebela (CROWDED, SHANGHAI RED, WE(L)COME BACK) and artistIbrahim Moustafa (JAEGER, MOTHER PANIC, JAMES BOND), High Crimes is ahigh-altitude noir that’s been called “the perfect thriller, withbig stakes, damaged characters, dark pasts, and just the right ratio ofhumor-to-corpses." (Chelsea Cain, NYT bestselling author of the ArchieSheridan-Gretchen Lowell series.)