Reporter Katie Shah's exposés of the corruption of the English ruling class put her in the crosshairs of powerful men on a good day. <i>Smoke</i> and <i>Ashes</i> tells the stories of the bad days; as she and assassin Rupert Cain become targets of a sinister cabal bent on controlling the nation's oil and of a psychotic intelligence that has uploaded itself onto the Internet! <br><br><b>EISNER NOMINEE FOR BEST LIMITED SERIES!</b> <br><br>* Art by Dan McDaid; Carla Speed McNeil; Bill Sienkiewicz; Igor Kordey; Richard Pace; Colleen Doran; and more! <br><br>"Alex de Campi makes the wonderful look effortless. I'm buying this; and you should too; if you have any sense at all."&mdash;Gail Simone (<i>Batgirl</i>; <i>Secret Six</i>) <br><br>"There is a dedication to expanding the language of comic books; the kind of thing you rarely see these days." &mdash;Bleeding Cool