In ‘The Question: The Five Books of Blood’ by Greg Rucka, Renee Montoya, who takes on the persona of the masked yet faceless (vigilante’s) persona called ‘The Question’, hunts for the legendary ‘Crime Bible’ to uncover its secrets, so as to better understand how criminal minds tick. But in the process of knowing the nature of deceit, lust, greed and murder deeper, she stares into the proverbial Nietzschean abyss and the abyss into her too. Eventually unwittingly winning a crime cult leader in a duel, she becomes worshipped as the next default chief of his minions.
The story is called ‘the parable of the faceless’. Defilements are really faceless – till we choose to embody them, to give human faces to them. Yet, one’s defilements are not always worn visibly on the face. Even ‘The Question’, who is ‘faceless’, had undetected and unmindfully masked defilements. One can fool others, but more frighteningly, one can fool oneself too. Deceit indeed! (Will Renee turn to the dark side? The sequel will tell.)
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