Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #288992 in Books
- Published on: 2004-08-01
- Released on: 2004-08-01
- Original language:
English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 144 pages
Editorial Reviews
From Booklist
While a naked young woman meditates in a barren apartment in a rotting Soviet-era housing development in Tuva in September 2040, the dictator (sort of a Slavic Hunter Thompson) of a Russia that is totalitarian again (complete with hammer, sickle, star--and free drugs for all) dreams of reviving the Mongol empire of the Golden Horde, and in a Chechnya "cleansed" of all Chechens, the re-embodied spirit of a dervish-guerrilla cleanses a military outpost of its soldiers. Shortly thereafter, the dictator's military intelligence seeks out the last Bolshevik to pump him about Comrade Noyon, a young lama who claimed to be Genghis Khan reincarnated and whom Stalin executed in 1930. Baranko deftly cuts between the four plotlines he sets in motion, inserting many more intriguing characters as he unfolds an ingenious, darkly spiritual thriller that feels like an evil Indiana Jones romp but ends far more ambiguously than a similar movie would. Thanks to Baranko's top-drawer European mainstream-comics style, no matter how wildly it develops, The Horde is always grippingly good-looking. Ray Olson
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