Barry Gifford's Perdita Durango #[nn]

A dark-eyed young woman with a flower in her hair dominates this striking Neon Lit graphic novel cover, her intense gaze drawing you into the shadowy, richly painted world behind her — all candles, lurking figures, and moody atmosphere. Barry Gifford's crime fiction gets the graphic novel treatment here, adapted by Bob Callahan with art by Scott Gillis, whose cover work alone signals something vivid and uncompromising. Published by Rowohlt in 1997 as part of the Neon Lit series, this German-edition volume makes Gifford's hard-edged storytelling beautifully, viscerally visual.