As Blacksad returns home, a goanna hitman and a rat goon attempt to kill him and each other. Blacksad shoots the rat, interrogates the dying goanna and finally uncovers the culprit of the whole affair: Ivo Statoc, a frog, the richest and most powerful businessman in the city, who considers himself above any law. Statoc himself shot the actress because of her infidelity. After brutally infiltrating the office suite at the top of his skyscraper, Blacksad confronts the completely calm and cold-blooded Statoc – who first offers him a job, and later a bribe. Blacksad rejects both offers as a matter of principle and shoots Statoc in the head. The police arrange it so it appears to be a suicide. Arctic Nation This volume deals with inter-racial violence and racial segregation of the 1950s in a pseudo-American suburb called The Line. The book also obliquely addresses issues of economic depression, sexual repression and perversion, all intended to expose the social malaise and prejudice that exist beneath the apparently harmonious surfaces of communities. Observing the aftermath of a lynching on a city street, Blacksad meets his future sidekick, Weekly (a least weasel). Blacksad initially rejects him due to his unpleasant smell and obnoxious behavior. It is revealed that Blacksad is working for an old elementary school teacher, Miss Grey, who has asked him to search for a young girl named Kaylie. Miss Grey believes that Kaylie was kidnapped by Arctic Nation, a white supremacist organization. After befriending Weekly, Blacksad is harassed in a bar by three Arctic Nation members. Their leader, Huk (a white Arctic fox), turns out to be a close friend of the local police chief, Karup (a polar bear). Blacksad and Weekly are taken before Karup, who himself is revealed to be with Arctic Nation. Blacksad confronts Kaylie's mother, Dinah, who has mysteriously failed to report her daughter's disappearance. He suggests an affair between herself and the son of Oldsmill (a white tiger), a rich white socialite, but doubts this lead when Dinah takes offense at the insinuation. Blacksad and Weekly cross paths with a violent black power organisation called the Black Claws, which were originally accused of Kaylie's abduction. They force Weekly to publish a statement denying their involvement in the kidnapping. Blacksad decides to meet Oldsmill, but discovers that Oldsmill's son is mentally disabled and thus unlikely to have had an affair with Dinah. Meanwhile, Weekly