Eclipse Vol 2

In a world where sunlight burns people alive, Cielo Brandt, heiress of the city's most powerful company, and her savior David Baxter, have both survived a killer who didn't burn in the sunlight. Now, both want answers about his origins; Cielo investigates the city's underground and her father's company, while Bax braves the postapocalyptic wasteland and the discovery of another who is immune to the sun's rays. Collects ECLIPSE #5-8

Imagine if sunlight burned you alive. In the near future, a mysterious solar event has transformed the sun's light into deadly immolating rays. The world's few survivors now live in nocturnal cities. But a killer who uses sunlight to burn his victims emerges, and when he targets the daughter of a solar power mogul, it falls to a disillusioned solar engineer to protect her. Collects ECLIPSE #1-4.

"What if you couldn't go outside during the day anymore? In the wake of a cataclysmic solar event, the sunlight that once fed the human race has turned deadly, killing many of the Earth's inhabitants and transforming societal routines. When a killer emerges in the now nocturnal New York City, murdering his victims with sunlight, disillusioned solar engineer David 'Bax' Baxter is called in to help stop this new threat. Bax teams up with police detective James Everly to protect the killer's next target, the daughter of a solar industrialist, but they soon learn there's more going on in the city's shadows"--Page [4] of cover, volume 1.

In a world where sunlight is deadly, the final confrontation plays out between the corrupt solar tycoons and those mysterious individuals immune to the sunÕs rays. And caught in the middle are ordinary heroesÑa solar heiress turned rebel and a disillusioned former heroÑwho must rescue all of Manhattan from a villainous plot to destroy the solar power that protects the city. Collects ECLIPSE #13-16

The second volume in the trilogy—“a complex, bizarre, and unique vision of the near future with a kaleidoscopic mix of politics, pop, and paranoia” (Bruce Sterling, author of The Hacker Crackdown). World War Three continues. A nuclear strike has laid waste to much of Europe. And the fascists and fundamentalists of the Second Alliance are diligently working on Project Total Eclipse—a nightmare scenario that seeks to establish the SA’s control over a much wider territory through a takeover of the first orbiting space colony in human history. And they are running out of patience with the New Resistance—technologically skilled guerillas who are the only ones standing in the way of their grand plans for apartheid and world domination . . . This extraordinary trilogy, which anticipated such phenomena as surveillance drones and the rising threat of right-wing authoritarianism, is a riveting saga of out-of-control corporate power, a near-future world riven by rage and fear, and the need for individuals to stand up and fight back if they want to hold on to their freedom. “Vivid, dense, powerful imagery . . . hard to put down.” —The Washington Post

A rebellious criminal gang holds the city's solar electricity hostage, forcing our disillusioned heroes Bax and Cielo to gather their wills for one final showdown between the city's self-interested leaders and the last person left alive with an immunity to the sun.