The freeways are clogged. Terror stalks our cities. At shops and restaurants, the customer is seldom right. The pressures of big-city life can anger everyone. Bill Foster is more than angry. He is slipping over the edge. He abandons his gridlocked car on the hottest day of the year and heads home. Instead, he walks straight into an urban nightmare. He is an ordinary guy who declares war against the frustrations of daily living. A savvy cop is obsessed...

The Caped Crusader and Robin battle Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy. Uncle Alfred is dying and his niece comes to help and becomes Batgirl.

A young white lawyer tries to defend the vengeful father of an African American rape victim and faces dangerous racial tensions.

Walter Sparrow receives a book for his birthday from his wife, Agatha. The first words he reads changes his once placid existence into a whirlpool of psychological torture and mayhem. The book is a chilling murder mystery that seems to mirror Walter's life in dark and uncontrollable ways. The book's main character is a brooding detective named Fingerling who seems to copy Walter's own history. As the book comes to life, Walter becomes factuated by...