Wild Cards IV: Aces Abroad

US: I Books, 2002. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. When a group of SF's most imaginative writers discovered they shared a secr et love of the larger-than-life heroes of the four-color comics and Saturda y matinee serials, they gave each other a challenge: What would our world b e like if these superhuman heroes and villains had been real flesh-and-bloo d men and women who lived through this century's most turbulent history? In Wild Cards 4: Aces Abroad, it's discovered that, though the Wild Cards vir us burst into existence over New York City, the plague that followed was no t confined to the United States. It spawned Aces and Jokers in every countr y on Earth. Now a fact-finding mission seeks the truth about how Wild Cards are treated in other nations. From the jungles of Haiti to the Great Wall of China and behind the Iron Curtain, the Wild Cards team investigates the fate of their fellows everywhere. Editorial Reviews.