Intox #2

The second volume of Gilles Chaillet and Olivier Mangin's Intox series from Glénat drops readers straight into the tension of Opération Pablo, with a cover that says everything about the stakes: two men squaring off in a graffiti-tagged stairwell, one armed with a metal bar, both clearly past the point of negotiation. The cramped, urban setting gives the confrontation a raw, close-quarters energy that feels genuinely dangerous. A sharp thriller in the making from this 2004 Franco-Belgian series.