Rucka Greg

Six separate stories follow characters old and new from The New York Times bestselling series LAZARUS.

In a dystopian near-future, government is a quaint concept, resources are coveted, and possession is 100% of the law. A handful of Families rule, jealously guarding what they have and exploiting the Waste who struggle to survive in their domains. Forever Carlyle defends her family's holdings through deception and force as their protector, their Lazarus.

After being gone for a time, Superman's back in Metropolis. Clark Kent is fortuitiously on assignment with the Metropolis Special Crimes Unit when they have a run-in with Replikon. Meanwhile, Lois has a few dangerous experiences on her own assignment. Then, Mr. Mxyzptlk puts in an appearance.

The world now lies divided not amongst political or geographic boundaries but amongst financial ones. Wealth is power, and that power rests with only a handful of families. Two of those families are at war. Carlyle and Hock are battling for control of North America. Malcolm Carlyle hovers at death's door, the victim of a poison created by Jakob Hock. As his eldest son, Stephen, struggles to fill his father's shoes, Carlyle's allies are growing more...

"The world now lies divided not amongst political or geographic boundaries but amongst financial ones. Wealth is power, and that power rests with only a handful of families. And now those families are at war. As warring Lazari battle across the theater of Western Europe, Forever Carlyle has been sidelined, recovering from grievous wounds suffered during the Battle of Duluth. Physical trauma can be quickly healed-- it is the damage to her heart that...

"Six-thousand-year-old Andromache 'Andy' of Scythia, Nicolo 'Nicky' of Genoa, Yusuf 'Joe' al-Kaysani, and twenty-seven-year-old Nile return to the fight ... When you've waged war as long as Andy and her squad, you've gotten your hands more than bloody. Now, the day has come to confront the sins of the past. But as Nile struggles to make peace with the team, the last person Andy expected to ever see again returns to challenge not only what Andy believes...

"A witch courted by demons. A cop breaking the rules to enforce the law. A woman besieged by Internal Affairs, the witch-hunters of Aira, the forces of Hell, and the sisters of her own coven. Rowan Black is all these things ... and more. She's lost her partner, an unsolved homicide haunts her conscience, and the whiff of suspicion around her involvement is getting to her fellow cops. Even Alexandra Grey, her coven-mate and best friend for several...

Portland's best private investigator Dex Parios is back and this time, the case is a real grind. When she picks up a simple assignment to escort a package of highly-prized coffee beans, Dex has no idea that she's stepping into the web of the Barista Mafia and eccentric billionaires with no compunction about using force to get the most coveted coffee around. And to top it all off, her sister is in town.

U.S. Marshall Carrie Stetko, stationed in Antartica, becomes involved with Aleks Kuchin, a Russian government agent, as together they try to track down a group of rogue Russian Spetznaz troops who are transporting stolen nuclear weapons.