Seventeen-year-old Destiny Ajaye took on the LAPD in her South Central Siege and paid for it-not with her life, but with her freedom. Now, Destiny is sequestered in the Madrasa Institute, a government school for prodigies. But will she use her gifts to wage war at the military's behest-or is she already planning another revolution? From writers Marc Bernardin and Adam Freeman(Castle Rock, Alphas, X-Men Origins: Nightcrawler, The Authority, The Highwaymen) and rising-star artist Rosi Kampe, comes a sequel that promises to set Destiny's world-and ours-ablaze.
After chafing at the rigid rules of the Madrasa Institute, a government school for wayward prodigies, and losing her only friend, Destiny agrees to spearhead a mission south of the border. Her target: the Mexican drug cartels. But, given that the greatest military mind of her generation is no one's pawn, what is she REALLY after? And who'll risk death by getting in her way? From writers Marc Bernardin and Adam Freeman (Castle Rock, Alphas, X-Men Origins: Nightcrawler, The Authority, The Highwaymen) and rising-star artist Rosi Kampe comes a sequel that promises to set Destiny's world-and ours-ablaze.
Ignoring orders to assassinate the leader of a drug cartel, Destiny pursues her true mission-free two dozen young girls from the cartel's sex-trade operation. With an army of mercenaries on her tail and the US border over 1,500 miles away, how will she fight her way out while protecting such fragile cargo?
After reducing Angel Guerrero's drug operation to ashes-and surviving an attempt on her life by the very government that sent her to Mexico in the first place-Destiny is aiming her once-in-a-generation mind right at the Los Zetas cartel. But can she safeguard the fugitive women in her charge while fending off an army of enemy combatants hired to kill? Can she do what decades of American drug policy has failed to do: chop the head off the cartel snake?
The greatest military mind of her generation returns in the follow-up to the winner of Top Cow's Pilot Season. Seventeen-year-old Destiny Ajaye took on the LAPD in her South Central Siege and paid for it-not with her life, but with her freedom. Now, Destiny is sequestered in the Madrasa Institute, a government school for prodigies. But will she use her gifts to wage war at the military's behest-or is she already planning another revolution? Collects Genius: Cartel #1-5.
