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Dark Horse Comics has announced John Le Carre: The Circus-Losing Control, written by Harvey Award-winning author Matt Kindt and painted by Eisner Award-nominated artist Ibrahim Moustafa.
It is billed as a thrilling story that expands the world created by John Le Carré’s spy, from John Le Carré’s cold, Tinker Taylor Solider’s spy, and many other novels developed in connection with the ink factory. Kindt writes the series in the letters of Moustafa art, Brad Simpson’s Colors (Summer Shadows, Let’s Make This a Devil), and Simon Bowland (The Hung and the Dusk, Parasomnia).
Here’s the complete overview:
Every day, behind closed doors, circus men and women are caught up in high-wire acts that the average citizen would never notice. These intelligence agents protect the UK’s most sensitive secrets. In its head, everything is control: all powerful doll masters who decide who goes where, who does what, sometimes who lives and who dies if necessary. But now the control has disappeared.
He doesn’t show up in the office. He misses the meeting. He can’t avoid the phone call. He is simply nowhere. Control’s assistant Maggie is the only person who knows he’s gone, and the clock is ticking as Moll’s identity was blown away in Moscow. Members of “The Mothers” – a fleet of assistants and secretaries who hold the show together behind the scenes of the circus – Maggie knows all the protocols, all the passwords, and all the operatives, but she doesn’t know if something has been in control or if this is part of his plan. Either way, she can’t trust anyone. No one can know that control is missing. And can she even trust her control?
The secrets within the circus have a way to unravel, and Maggie must either act quickly or risk a wall rolling around her.
“Being asked to donate his work to the world of John Le Carré’s smiley was one of the greatest honors and responsibilities of my life,” Kindt said. “I wasn’t looking for this job, but I was called to serve, and like Smiley, my heart is in the right place and hopefully that’s enough.”
Nick Halcoway, on behalf of John Le Carré’s real estate, said, “Look at this! Look at it! You open the book! Ibrahim’s amazing visuals will quickly envelop you in the world. And you are a lie lie, a lie, a lie, a spy. Everything about it.
John LeCarré: The Circus-Losing Control #1 (of 3) is digitally and printed on November 19th. It is now available for pre-orders from your local comic shop for $5.99.
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