High Crimes Paperback / softback

People die every year on Mount Everest. This year willbe murder. Zan Jensen, on the run from herpast, has landed in Kathmandu, where she works as a climbing guide for richtourists.

On the side, she and her partner, Haskell, moonlight as high-altitudegraverobbers: extorting money from the families of the many dead bodies theyfind littering the peaks of the Himalayas to bring them down and send them home. When a body at the summit of Mount Everest shows up with a jackpot of statesecrets embedded in its skin, they’re put in the crosshairs of agovernment agency bent on recovering the body and eliminating any witnesses. It’s a race to the top of the world, where Zan will fight to findsalvation in the deadliest place onEarth. Collecting the two-time Eisner-nominatedcomic by Christopher Sebela (CROWDED, SHANGHAI RED, WE(L)COME BACK) and artistIbrahim Moustafa (JAEGER, MOTHER PANIC, JAMES BOND), High Crimes is ahigh-altitude noir that’s been called “the perfect thriller, withbig stakes, damaged characters, dark pasts, and just the right ratio ofhumor-to-corpses." (Chelsea Cain, NYT bestselling author of the ArchieSheridan-Gretchen Lowell series.)