Christopher Poole

Summer of the Vigilantes Christopher Poole

In a New York City overrun by crime, a group of ten multi-talented vigilantes fights back against the forces of evil. Led by the obsessed Gary Parker, the ranks of the clandestine peacekeepers include such colorful rogues as the musclebound giant Charlie, the reformed cat burglar Carla, the Japanese ninja Sushi, the blind psychologist Buzz, and the teenage computer prodigy William, all working from their headquarters beneath the Manhattan subway system. In the course of their adventures, they face off against a line-up of some of the most despicable villains ever to prowl the urban landscape. Numbered among this gallery of infamy is Norman Kubritz, the most powerful gangster on the eastern seaboard; Qasim Al-Fulani, a fanatical Islamic terrorist; Shang Fear, a sadistic, sword-wielding killer, and by far the deadliest member of the Chinese mafia; Henry Hugo, a flamboyantly homosexual, globetrotting hitman for hire; Father Campion Earkhert, a deranged Catholic priest whose solution to all the world's sin is to kill all the sinners (i.e. everyone); and Salvador Ramos, a corrupt Mexican general commanding his own drug empire. There's violence galore, and sex on the side, in the best tradition of action-packed escapist fare, where the high-risk carnage only stops blazing long enough for Gary to relapse into suicidal alcoholism, or for Peg, the Vigilantes' emotionally unbalanced chemist, to enjoy a discreet affair with her teenage lesbian lover. Truly something for all fans of the genre.