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Author: Geoff Cooper
Artist: Chad Savage
Page Count: 103
Pub. Date: 2005
ISBN: 1-58767-112-3
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Status: Out of Print
About This Title:
Retribution,
Inc. (Novella #16)
by Geoff Cooper
Retribution, Inc. is a hardcore band struggling on the club circuit. Shortly
after their guitar player leaves for Florida to attend recording school, they
get a call from Brackard's Point's most prestigious venue, The Electra Complex,
to open for Your Kid's On Fire--a national act currently touring to support
their new major-label release.
The race to find a stand-in guitar player becomes desperate, and they must
choose between Joey Donnatello, a virtuoso with a massive ego, and Ernie Shiel,
whose skills eclipse even Joey's, but his image is wrong for the part--and he
has a secret: his hands bleed every time he plays.
Chuck, the bass player and singer, doesn't want Joey.
Mark, the drummer, doesn't want Ernie.
Apathy becomes anger, and anger turns to violence, with deception, betrayal,
and manipulation running rampant through every action, every word. Chuck and
Mark see their band tearing itself apart in front of their eyes, as each does
what he believes is for the good of the band.
Someone must give in, if they are to do the show--which is drawing ever closer.
A decision must be made, but is there one that is right--that could preserve
their humanity without destroying that which they have built, or are they doomed
to become like all those bands they despise, run by greed and ambition rather
than words and music?
There is blood on their hands, and not all of it is Ernie's...
Available in two states:
Limited
edition of 750 signed copies ($30)
Traycased
Lettered Edition of 26 signed and lettered copies bound in leather with a satin
ribbon page marker ($125)
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