The Francis Blake Affair: Blake and Mortimer 4 (Adventures of Blake & Mortimer) [Paperback]

Van Jean Hamme (Author), Ted Benoit (Illustrator)

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Publication Date: December 15, 2008 | Series: Adventures of Blake & Mortimer (Book 4)

Scandal breaks in the London press: There is a mole in the Intelligence Service! And it appears without a doubt, on a photograph taken by agents of MI 5, that the mole wears the face of Francis Blake! Mortimer believes that his friend has been forced to act against his will. But the initial investigations sweep away this hypothesis: Blake has opened, under an assumed name, an account fed by payments coming from the Bahamas. In a few months, he has withdrawn more than 10 times his annual pay! With MI 5 agents planning to try Blake for high treason, or to kill him if needed, Mortimer decides to find his friend before they do. A long hunt begins .

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About the Author

Born of Edgar Pierre Jacobs' imagination during the post-WWII period, Professor Philip Mortimer, nuclear physicist, and Captain Francis Blake, dashing head of MI5, are legendary heroes of the 9th art. After Jacobs' death, the series was subsequently continued by Jean Van Hamme and Ted Benoit. Jean Van Hamme is one of Belgium's most successful contemporary novelists and comics writers. His most popular successes translated and published in English by Cinebook are Thorgal (illustrated by Rosinski), Largo Winch (illustrated by Francq) and Lady S (illustrated by Aymond). The artist Ted Benoit is a big admirer and supporter of the clean-lined graphic style instituted by Herge and E. P. Jacobs.

Product Details

• Paperback: 68 pages
• Publisher: Cinebook, Ltd (December 15, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1905460635
• ISBN-13: 978-1905460632
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #883,574 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The latest english edition of the Blake & Mortimer series, December 22, 2008

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Michael R. Brown (Tamarac, FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Francis Blake Affair: Blake and Mortimer 4 (Adventures of Blake & Mortimer) (Paperback)

Let's make a few things clear.

While Cinebooks has this as their 4th volume in the B&M series they are printing, this is really 13th volume!!!! They even included a list of all the albums in the back of this one. And its the first one NOT done by EP Jacobs, who created the series.

I really wish they would focus on reprinting the EP Jacobs volumes before moving to the post-Jacobs stuff (done after he died).

This volume, while enjoyable, is more a counter-intelligence spy story, then the SF-theme stories of Jacobs. Overall good, (Van Hamme DID do the excellent Code XIII stories), but would like to read more Jacobs stuff.

The next planned volume is yet another non-Jacobs story: v15 Strange Encounter. They do plan on reprinting SOS Meteor after that one, and its a Jacobs album. Here's hoping we see all 12 Jacobs B&M albums.