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From Andy Diggle and Angela Cruickshank's mature-readers thriller at Dynamite, this cover by Ben Oliver pulls no punches — a bloodied man in blue gloves clutches his wounded face with one hand while leveling a silenced firearm with the other, his grimacing expression caught somewhere between desperation and menace against a stark black-and-white backdrop streaked with vivid red. Andrea Mutti and Vladimir Popov round out the creative team behind the series, which clearly thrives in the gritty, morally complicated territory that made Diggle a go-to voice for hard-edged crime and espionage fiction. Oliver's painterly rendering makes even the stillness of the cover feel tense and immediate.