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"Contains material originally published in single magazine form as High Crimes #1-12."
About the author
Christopher Sebela is a two-time Eisner-nominated writer, designer, and publisher living and dying in Portland, Oregon. He’s the co-creator of CROWDED, SHANGHAI RED, HIGH CRIMES, EVOLUTION,
House Amok,
Heartthrob,
We(l)come Back,
Dead Letters,
Short Order Crooks, and
The Death Defying. He also writes things in other peoples’ sandboxes sometimes.
He is catnip for weirdos, father to a blockheaded dog named Zola, drinks toxic amounts of coffee, watches found footage horror movies, and sure loves writing about himself in the third person.
Summary
People die every year on Mount Everest. This year will
be murder.
Zan Jensen, on the run from her
past, has landed in Kathmandu, where she works as a climbing guide for rich
tourists. On the side, she and her partner, Haskell, moonlight as high-altitude
graverobbers: extorting money from the families of the many dead bodies they
find 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 state
secrets embedded in its skin, they’re put in the crosshairs of a
government 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 find
salvation in the deadliest place on
Earth.
Collecting the two-time Eisner-nominated
comic by Christopher Sebela (CROWDED, SHANGHAI RED, WE(L)COME BACK) and artist
Ibrahim Moustafa (JAEGER, MOTHER PANIC, JAMES BOND), High Crimes is a
high-altitude noir that’s been called “the perfect thriller, with
big stakes, damaged characters, dark pasts, and just the right ratio of
humor-to-corpses." (Chelsea Cain, NYT bestselling author of the Archie
Sheridan-Gretchen Lowell series.)
