New readers, jump aboard here! Duane Swierczynski and Manuel Garcia kick off a new era for the super-spy Avenger known as Black Widow! A senator is seduced and assassinated...and his journalist son follows the trail to a fatally sexy Soviet agent. This deadly 'woman in black' moonlights as a high-class escort to lure powerful men into her web of blackmail and death. But Nick Crane believes he's finally found his father's murderer, and he's about to expose...the Black Widow!

Rated T+