His name is Bernard Black, also known as the Black Rose, and he’s one of the best cat burglars in the world. His one weakness? Women. Bernie may be the best there is at what he does, but he’s also a virgin, and whenever he gets near a beautiful woman, he turns into a bumbling fool.
Bernie has stolen a priceless necklace from billionaire John Maiden during the Cannes Film Festival, only to have it swiped right from under him by his rival and secret love interest, the cunning Lily Frost.
In turn, John Maiden contracts out to an elite female service known as M.A.D.A.M. (Mistresses of Assasination, Destruction, and Mayhem). Their mission: retrieve the necklace at all costs and bring back Bernie’s head on a silver platter. To accomplish this, M.A.D.A.M dispatches their ten deadliest and most beautiful assassins, on a hilarious and action-packed romp through Europe.
If things go his way, Bernie might just get lucky…unless somebody kills him first.
Ten Beautiful Assassins is a wonderfully illustrated 288-page original manga graphic novel, by the artist of Speed Racer.
Before he lost his marbles (three dozen, to be exact, all in a perfect blue. If found, please return them immediately) and went to write full-time, Thomas R. Hart was a a media consultant, art director, media analyst and Editor-in-Chief of the Official Dreamcast Magazine, then a launch editor for a variety of other magazines. He also had a very short run as a television personality (you blinked? you missed it) for NBC GIGA, before somebody told him that being on TV really does add twenty pounds.
He is the owner of the Word Factory and currently lives under a giant rock, where he can often be seen drawing up elaborate schemes to rule the world. With red crayons. On napkins. It makes him happy. Don't ask.
