Advance Praise for Green River Killer

08/23/2011 10:00am

If these quotes don't convince you that you need to pick up Green River Killer, we don't know what will.

 

“Terrific. It’s got the scariest opening sequence I’ve read in years, and the novel as a whole makes compelling stay-up-late reading. Great, creepy stuff.”

—Stephen King, New York Times best-selling author of The Dark Tower and The Stand

 

“Disturbingly true and refreshingly original, this is not at all what we have come to expect from the now-tired story of the manhunt for a serial killer. It is the man, not the hunt, that elevates this book into the rarefied space reserved for things that are genuinely new and unique. Green River Killer is both . . . and it also happens to demonstrate the perfect marriage of elegantly understated writing to haunting imagery that stays with you a long time after you put it down. My gut was wrenched and I loved every second of it.”

—Damon Lindelof, cocreator of Lost

 

“An astounding graphic novel—this is not just a riveting, relentless crime story, but a crackling morality tale pitting the dark glamour of evil against the day-to-day hard work demanded in the upkeep of decency. It’s a chilling, unnerving story, with sharp bursts of humor and a strong, true, humane heart. Absolutely fantastic.”

—Gillian Flynn, New York Times best-selling author of Dark Places and Sharp Objects

 

“The restless world of the graphic novel continues to open new ground and seek out new summits and Green River Killer is a signpost on that shifting landscape. Like some pensive pen-and-ink version of In Cold Blood or Zodiac, Jeff Jensen and Jonathan Case deliver a story that is compelling, textured, and informed with a journalistic authenticity. It also serves as dispatch from the nonfiction frontier of a medium that gets more interesting by the month.”

—Geoff Boucher, Los Angeles Times and HeroComplex.com

 

“The story Jeff Jensen has to tell about Tom Jensen’s pursuit of the Green River Killer, with its artful shifts back and forth in time, operates on two levels: as a spellbinding true-crime story and as a son’s deep, loving appreciation of his father’s life, work, and code of honor. I finished this book feeling as though I’d read a relentless thriller and a moving memoir: two gifts in one.”

—Ken Tucker, Entertainment Weekly 

 

“Like only a graphic novel could, Green River Killer balances a fascinating investigation of horrific murders with a proud son’s moving celebration of his old man. Jeff Jensen’s journalistic eye for detail and Jonathan Case’s exquisitely paced visual storytelling combine to make a true-crime epic.”

—Brian K. Vaughan, New York Times best-selling writer of Y: The Last Man

 

“One of the most chilling crime comics I’ve ever read. With an insight and detail most of us can only imagine, Jensen’s tale of his father’s long hunt will stick with you like a knife in the back.”

—Ed Brubaker, Eisner Award–winning writer of Criminal and Incognito

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