title: Incidents in the Night: Volume 1
author:  David B. 
description: On the heels of his fanciful yet historically based Black Paths (2013), French cartoonist David B. turns to the wholly fantastic in this outlandishly imaginative tale of conspiracies and the occult. It begins with Davids obsessive search for copies of a nineteenth-century journal, Incidents in the Night, which he locates in a preposterously well-stocked bookshop, where mountainous piles of random volumes require a guide for an archaeological dig. The pages of the journal detail a plot to return Napoleon to power, with world conquest to follow. Davids further investigation reveals that the papers fanatical publisher, who had been disfigured at the Battle of Waterloo, is still alive, residing within the pages of a book in Davids own library. Furthermore, he learns that the Angel of Death is seeking to end the publishers immortality. The free-flowing, inventive visuals, boldly and confidently rendered, give the extravagant story the feel of a sustained but persuasive nightmare. The book ends in a cliff-hanger, to be resolved in a future installment of this intricate yarn. --Gordon Flagg
zlib_text: **PHILLIP MARGOLIN**
  
   **THE LAST INNOCENT MAN**
  
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   _For Joseph and Eleonore Margolin,_  
   _great parents and good friends,_  
   _and Doreen, Daniel, and Amy,_  
   _the home team_.
  
   **Contents**
  
   ** _PART I_**  
   __**_TRIALS_**
  
   ** _1_**  
  David Nash could see the storm clouds closing in on…
  
   ** _2_**  
  It was an old wooden door. The type you expected…
  
   ** _3_**  
  Darlene Hersch was out of breath by the time she…
  
   ** _4_**  
  “David, come over here. There’s someone who wants to meet…
  
   ** _5_**  
  Sunlight streamed through the glass wall of David’s bedroom, and…
  
   ** _6_**  
  The first half of July was cool and comfortable. There…
  
   ** _7_**  
  It took David a long time to calm down after…
  
   ** _PART II_**  
   __**_THE LAST INNOCENT MAN_**
  
   ** _1_**  
  Judge Rosenthal looked across the courtroom toward the clock that…
  
   ** _2_**  
  “There’s a Mr. Holt to see you, Mr. Nash,” the…
  
   ** _3_**  
  David had not slept well. There had been clear skies…
  
   ** _4_**  
  Th