In relation to the latter, I would warn that there are some very explicit scenes here - both of killings, and also of Tan, as she picks her way through an exploitative, male-dominated world (or at least, it was till she took a stand). AWARD WINNER CHARLES ARDAI, CO-FOUNDER OF HARD CASE CRIME, BRINGS HIS NOIR EXPERTISE TO THE FORE IN HIS DEBUT GRAPHIC NOVEL ABOUT A SEXY WEAPONS SMUGGLER. This volume collects issues 1-4 of a comic following the adventures of Joanna Tan, the arms dealer and smuggler to whom the title refers. Thank you NetGalley and Titan Books for providing me with this ARC in exchange for an honest review!

Thrilling, fast-paced, and light on words, the core revenge narrative is mostly weak yet addictively fast-paced as it allows its protagonist to utilize her sexual energy quite ostentatiously on readers. As was the central premise here - when a law enforcement agency reaches out for help, it seems to be making an offer Joanna can't refuse.You have everything here, origin story and tragedy, years spent working with guns and infiltrating highly secured areas and of course nefarious crime syndicates and government organizations trying to use Joanna for their own purposes. We conclude the issue with an emotional memory of Tan’s father, a look at her next job, and a clear look a the risks involved with her line of work. This does require loads of suspension of disbelief, but once you’re set and ready to believe in anything, things move quickly and smoothly. S. government agent Brook Barrow to hunt down the perpetrator, a deadly scarred killer with a shadowy past. So the story gets darker, moving from the daring set up of the opening pages, where she poses on a beach to catch the eye of a tycoon as part of a job, to an attempted infiltration of a crime syndicate.

She is not a gun runner but someone who can sneak into anywhere and place a gun for someone else to use.I have to admit, very interesting concept, something I came across only in one novel where specialist (again woman) helps an interested party to infiltrate a prison to reach his target.