Rachel Wood wakes after having just taken the leap of faith with Benji with the Blue Tablet to find he is mortally injured. Rachel embarks on a journey to save her love—a journey which will take her deep into the heart of the gravest danger. Is she willing to give up her life to save her one and only true love? How much is she willing to sacrifice?
Looting, murdering bands of desperadoes roamed the streets of New York like wanton jackals who destroyed what they could not devour. An underworld Juggernaut had been unleashed upon Manhattan, turning it into a place of desolation and terror. The Thuggees of the East, those masters of murder, the cruel minions of Tang-akhmut, held the city in a state of siege. One man could save New York – Richard Wentworth, the avenging Spider, and Richard Wentworth, hunted by the police, hated by the...
From the beginning, criminals have lived in terror of the Spider. Crime lords cower before his awesome shadow. Single-handedly, the Spider has decimated New York's Underworld. What happens when a bigger, badder arachnid comes to town? How will the Master of Men react when the Tarantula begins operations? Blacking out Manhattan, pillaging with impunity, transforming it into a City of Flaming Shadows, the Tarantula shows no fear of the Spider. Taking up the challenge, Richard Wentworth...
No criminal dared testify against another, while the Whisper was crime-emperor of New York – and the forces of the law were powerless against the ravages of the Underworld! For when the Whisper's eerie warning fell over Manhattan men died, slashed to bloody bits by a weapon that was invisible but killed horribly! In that awestruck city of riotous crime, where a murmuring voice brought instantaneous death, Richard Wentworth, in the Spider's strange garb, took up a doomed people's...