Count
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- $16.99
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
A sci-fi reimagining of the greatest revenge story of all time: The Count of Monte Cristo.
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Framed for treason and wrongfully imprisoned at the hands of a jealous and corrupt magistrate, Redxan Samud escapes his breathtaking hovering prison colony with only one thing on his mind: Revenge.
Posing as a Man of Status with a newfound fortune and his Automaton Retainer Unit (Aru) by his side, Samud sets out to dismantle the lives of those who have wronged him. But when innocent lives start to get caught in the middle of his quest for vengeance, he will have to decide between using his new fortune for the good of the people or to pursue the revenge he so desperately desires.
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The Count of Monte Cristo duels with cyborg assassins, sky pirates, and robot soldiers in this kinetic if flawed, sci-fi tinged take on Alexandre Dumas's revenge saga. Moustafa (High Crimes) infuses a palpable sense of excitement as characters bounce off air ships, duel with pirates, and engage in high speed sword fights and aerial pursuits. The cinematic artwork unreels some excellent action choreography, but the drama and suspense of the hero encircling his prey is shortchanged, and the worldbuilding lackluster. As in Dumas's original novel, the young Count is incarcerated and trained, escapes, and acquires a great fortune, which he uses as the engine for his vengeance. But narrative intrigue takes a backseat to the action—this retelling foregoes all of the maneuvering, and the Count's revenge plot boils down to stabbing all the bad guys. In one of the more effective sequences at integrating sci-fi elements, the Count realizes that his wife, assumed dead, has in fact been reprogrammed and rebuilt as an assassin cyborg—but the initial shock doesn't last long. There's ample fun for fans of fast-paced action and adventure, but the deeper themes of the classic tale are rather more abridged than reimagined.
