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Cargando... Button Man: Get Harry Expor John Wagner
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The world didn't seem to need a man like Harry Exton anymore. An ex-soldier and mercenary, Harry was a human-killing machine without a vocation, until an old colleague told him about 'The Game'. The players, known as 'Button Men' are paid to fight to the death in a modern-day gladiatorial contest. Organised by mysterious backers known as 'Voices', the killing game offers bountiful financial rewards... if you live. Harry decides to participate, but soon discovers that death offers the only way out! The world didn't seem to need a man like Harry Exton anymore. An ex-soldier and mercenary, Harry was a human-killing machine without a vocation, until an old colleague told him about 'The Game'. The players, known as 'Button Men' are paid to fight to the death in a modern-day gladiatorial contest. Organised by mysterious backers known as 'Voices', the killing game offers bountiful financial rewards... if you live. Harry decides to participate, but soon discovers that death offers the only way out! Written by John Wagner (Judge Dredd, A History of Violence) with art by Arthur Ranson (Anderson: Psi Division, Mazeworld) Button Man is an action-packed thriller, deservedly regarded as one of the greatest strips ever to be published in 2000 AD. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Harry Ex is a former soldier and mercenary who unexpectedly ends up as a player (so called Button Man) in the Killing Game, game where assassins are pitted against each other by their handlers (aka Voices). Lots of money is circulating on the bets and Button Men are trying very hard to survive and make the other guy(s) pay.
Only thing is they do not count on Harry Ex. They treat him as an ordinary killer while he is much much more (I like when he says to his Voice controller "Do you know what kind of a man I am?", it reminds me of [b: Dorsai|263111|Dorsai! (Childe Cycle, #1)|Gordon R. Dickson|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1389845085s/263111.jpg|2252902] short story in which one of the brothers Graeme tells to man who tried scheming against him something in line of "You think I am soldier, I am not. I am man of war").
Harry Ex does not like to have his actions controlled by others so he rebels and tries to leave the game which puts him into whole bunch of problems and he becomes target of choice for all other assassins.
Art is photo-realistic, grainy-like which seems to the thing in the 90's and might take some time to get accustomed to it. Nevertheless composition and the way story is presented to the reader is very movie-like.
Very interesting book, highly recommended to all action and thriller fans. (