Volume One, Season One contains parts 1 through 7 of Garth Ennis' Red Team comic. It is an engaging murder mystery that also portrays police corruption. Red Team is the story of four members of a Major Crimes Unit in the New York Police Department. Eddie Mellinger, Trudy Giroux, Duke Wylie and George Winburn have been very successful catching drug lords and other crooks with their meticulous surveillance. However, they have been unsuccessful for two years in their pursuit of drug dealer Clinton Days. In the process they eliminated most of Days' competition. When the team finds out that Days has arranged the murder of a fellow NYPD cop, they decide to kill him. After the murder, the group meets and decides to continue killing suspects but only the worst ones in the city. These are the criminals who would probably kill many other people.
Red Team is a good book for sitting back and unwinding after a busy day. The story pulled me in from the start and kept me reading until I was finished. With the suspense level ratcheted up in each section, the pace was exceptionally fast. The reader does not get to know the characters much as the plot action takes precedence over character development. It is, simply, a great crime fiction story.
Cop story lovers will want to read this. 5 out of 5 stars.
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