An excellent graphic novel. Much darker than Kevin Baker's prose novels, about a low-level Russian mob enforcer in Coney Island who was formerly a soldier in Chechnya. Although most of the "action" is in Brooklyn, it constantly drifts back to wars throughout Russian history. His father and grandfather and great grandfather fought in other Russian wars -- and recall wars from still earlier periods. Each of these is a series of betrayals, of women, by women, and all ending up badly for everyone. And the artwork is haunting.