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Batman: To Stalk a Specter (Roc)

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Where Captured by the Engines is a horror novel, this is a thriller, as Batman plays Bat and Mouse with an assassin, or more like big ugly nasty rat than mouse.

Specter is an international assassin of spectacular success. No one can catch him. He is hired to deal with an informer who is a key witness at trial to put away a South American crimelord.

The first part of a book deal with some police and FBI politics, and recaps Batman Year One.

The rest is the law enforcement types desperately trying to find this man Specter. Batman kidnaps the witness to keep her safe in the Batcave, and calls for help from people he has saved in the past, taxi drivers, an Asian citizen vigilante group, his sensei, and others.

This allows the good guys to catch a break.

Specter, however, as well as blowing people up to cause chaos is hunting Batman.

This ends in a confrontation, and the female witness is involved.

Here's the back cover blurb.

GOTHAM CITY BLACKMAILED

Drug Lord Caught By U.S. Commandos! Desiderio Garcia to Stand Trial in the U.S.! The headlines-and the authorities-are jubilant, but not for long. For Garcia has a deadly would-be rescuer: the superassassin known as the Specter. And the Specter's reign of havoc and horror has already begun.

The people of Gotham City are held hostage and destined to die by the 1,000s unless Garcia is freed. The people's only hope lies with Batman's bold and dangerous plan. In a war with only one winner and one survivor, he's going to make himself the archkiller's target, matching his enemy weapon for weapon, deception for deception--and with good for evil!