Nick Raider SD #1: Pogodba

In The Pact, Nick Raider honours the last wish of his friend and fellow police officer Carter Anderson. He takes Carter’s body back to Sparta, where Carter wanted to be buried. On arriving, Nick learns about a recent unsolved murder and decides to look into it.

The investigation takes him from the corrupt mayor and the ineffectual sheriff to the founder of Camp Harlan, a paramilitary training centre outside town. Nick soon encounters some of the camp’s recruits. To solve the murder, he has to look into both the people who hold power in Sparta and those training beyond its limits.

Maurizio Colombo and Gino D’Antonio turn a personal obligation to a dead friend into a police mystery. Renato Polese illustrates a case that takes Nick between a town where he has little footing and a training camp whose role has yet to come to light.