HANK HOWARD PIZZA DETECTIVE THE TWO HOLLYWOODS #2 (OF 2)

New York Times best-selling writer Robert Venditti and world-renowned comics legend, David Lapham (STRAY BULLETS, THE HERO TRADE), crank up the heat in the guns-blazing finale to their two-part, high-stakes action extravaganza. OUT OF JURISDICTION AND OUT OF TIME! The heat’s rising in Hollywood as Detective Hank Howard closes in on the Aussie drug syndicate that left Big Caligula’s rising star lying cold on the linoleum. But the bodies are piling up around him and the feds muscling in on his murder case are demanding that he back down…or else. But an explosive showdown with a flamethrower-wielding hitman tells him he’s hot on the killer’s trail–and he’s not backing down. Outgunned, outnumbered, and out of jurisdiction, Hank will need his fists and his wits if he’s going to crack the case before he finds himself buried six feet down under!

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