BATMAN: The Ultimate Evil

N.Y.: Warner Books Inc, 1995. 1st edition, November 1995, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. The book is a hardcover in laminated pictorial boards, complete with original wrap-around printed banner. The banner is about half the size of a normal dust-jacket. Essay on "Child Sex Tourism" by David Hechler appended at rear. Andrew Vachss continues his one-man war against child molesters through the persona of Batman. "Vachss has curled toes and raised eyebrows for years with his New York City avenger Burke. Don't think for a minute that just because he's penned a novel based on a comic-book hero that he's abandoned his passionate stand against child abuse. Weary of fighting exotic criminals, Batman has reached a crossroads. As wealthy philanthropist Bruce Wayne, traveling with a beautiful young social worker and child advocate, he begins to realize a change must occur in his life. But what? Alfred, his faithful servant, provides the answer. He reveals to Batman the secret of his parents' death. They weren't the victims of random crime, they were murdered with intent. Wayne's mother was also a crime fighter. She discovered a worldwide network of child pornographers, pedophiles, and pimps and left behind her findings with instructions to Alfred to turn them over to her son when the time was right. Batman targets child sex tourism promoted by a Southeast Asian country and, posing as a pedophile, makes the right contacts and soon finds himself battling the government..." -- Booklist. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book.