Rat Catcher TPB [2010]

RAT CATCHER TRADE PAPERBACK

The West Texas Mob’s money launderer Miguel Fuentes has decided to testify against its leader Earl Rawlins. Rawlins is a white supremacist has been using cattle as drug mules making them regular cash cows. However the FBI safehouse with Miguel Fuentes is burned to the ground in the Badlands of West Texas. Three agents are missing and Special Agent Moses Burdon secures the crime scene.

Meanwhile his partner Special Agent Lynch at the safehouse arrives at the El Paso Memorial Hospital. Lynch believed the story of the Rat Catcher with ties to the West Texas Mob. The U.S. Marshals Service arrives at FBI Headquarters in El Paso and team up with Agent Burdon to track down the Rat Catcher. Agent Burdon discovers the bandaged man at the hospital is not his partner Agent Lynch. Agent Lynch has been secretly speaking with Internal Affairs to report Rawlins has someone inside the FBI.

Before the FBI safehouse was burned, Agent Lynch arrived to ask Miguel Fuentes about the Rat Catcher. Fuentes reveals the Rat Catcher is an FBI Agent however Agent Burdon arrives kills the FBI agents and burns the safehouse. In the present Agent Burdon frames his former partner Agent Lynch as the Rat Catcher.

Andy Diggle earned himself as a writer after writing the Vertigo title The Losers. Now with artist Victor Ibanez build a suspenseful story with twists and turns and ending in a way that takes everyone by surprise.

RECOMMENDED – 4 OUT OF 5