White Knuckle

by Cy Dethan, Valia Kapadai (Artist), Nic Wilkinson (Letterer)

Forty years ago, Seth Rigal was a man to be feared – a serial strangler with a string of victims. Now nearly seventy and tormented by a lifetime of monstrous violence, Rigal lives on the verge of poverty and quietly waits for the death he knows he deserves. Tortured and confused, still tormented by the drives that made him a killer in his youth, Rigal finds himself almost unconsciously stalking the daughter of his final victim – only to have his precious anonymity snatched from him when he accidentally saves her son’s life. Seth Rigal, formerly known as the Gripper, just became a local celebrity. The bodies won’t stay buried any longer. White Knuckle is a complex and intense psychological thriller, distorting the ever-popular “retired gunslinger” motif into a rain-slick urban fantasy of murderous men and the needs that drive them.

Paperback

First published May 1, 2012

Reviews

[James · Rating 3 out of 5]

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[Kris Shaw · Rating 3 out of 5]

White Knuckle is a story about a serial killer decades past his prime, living in anonymity and isolation in his own personal Hell. He has kept an eye on the only person who could ever identify him for his crimes, the daughter of a woman he strangled who witnessed him in the act. While he has been out of circulation for years, he still watched this now adult woman with fascination.

Without giving away anything more than a general plot outline, this is a story of damnation and, maybe, salvation. This story deals with our culture's fascination with serial killers, and the type of individual who would commit these acts out of a desire to do so, rather than the compulsion of those who actually commit these heinous crimes. This is a solid, thought provoking read.

[Chad · Rating 3 out of 5]

I didn't love the art but the story was solid. It's about an old serial killer who was never caught and keeps an eye on the kid who got away. Thirty years later he befriends the woman and her son. Things begin to spiral from there.

[Sorcered · Rating 2 out of 5]

Uneven story of a repenting serial killer. Art is horrible.

[Artur Coelho · Rating 2 out of 5]

O estilo visual da ilustração é o mais interessante nesta história sobre um serial killer envelhecido que graças aos volteios do acaso se vê numa relação de interdependência com a filha de uma das suas vítimas.