Shades of Nam: Origins

by JP Thorson, Bill Diamond (Illustrator), Nathan Kirby (Illustrator)

JP Thorson nails it again in this unabashed illustrated Gothic-thriller, “Shades of Nam.”Ming Zhang, a descendant of Job, is one of the wealthiest entrepreneurs and philanthropists that society doesn’t know exists. The former warlord is also the deadliest assassin to walk the earth who helped depose King Jie of ancient China and has liquidated the vilest of humanity.The Legend has married countless women and befriended the likes of El Cid and Michelangelo. Ming lacks nothing from the world, but he feels utterly alone, losing family and friends through the centuries. Worse, every measure to annihilate the sinister being who cursed him has failed.Chuck Shotzski, a boxing phenom known as ‘True Grit’ has been experiencing strange dreams that lure him to enlist underage. By 1971, the US Army infantryman is headed to Vietnam. Four months into his tour, Shotz teams up with an unlikely ally to confront something worse than the war-torn hell of Nam, and it may be Ming Zhang’s last shot at redemption.“In the days of old, the ma nhập tràng haunted southeast Asia.”

304 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 11, 2020