The Route 66 List Vol. 5: . California

Rob's found his father, alive and moderately well after four years of physical and mental torture. But the happy reunion is cut short when the Clown makes contact with them. Unexpectedly, it's to offer them a deal: Alex will do one last job for him, then father and son can go, free and with the assurance of never being bothered by the KGB again. Inevitably, no one really believes the offer, and the last round of a deadly game begins …

Paris-born Eric Stalner began his comic career as one half of a creative team with his brother. Together they drew, and sometimes wrote, from 1989 to 2000, with series such as Le Boche and Le Fer et le Feu. After the team split up, he partnered with different authors, most often Pierre Boisserie, with whom he created La Croix des Cazenac, and participated in Didier Convard's best-selling series Le Triangle Secret.