| $@%&! level: Low “Bedroom” level: None Violence level: High (about what you'd expect from any book with Wolverine on the cover) Back Cover: “There's less than three weeks to go in the run-up to the nation's next general presidential election—a heated political contest pitting the incumbent president against a popular challenger. But all bets are off when a heinous act of domestic terrorism results in a young boy being held hostage before the eyes of America...with the ultimate demands to result in nothing short of changing the face of history. As a nationwide investigation into the boy's possible whereabouts is quickly mobilized, military brass requests that the mutant Wolverine become involved as well—there's simply on one more qualified with the tracking skills and vicious talent necessary to uncover the truth, even as the country threatens to descend into chaos...” |
Okay, end of rant. Sorry, I just had to get that out of the way first. Because the truth is that it doesn't matter—any of it. The actual point of the story is to get Wolverine into yet another of those situations that he's so good at getting into—and out of, but only after a good deal of bloodshed. Sometimes people think of Wolverine as just a bundle of pent up rage and violence, but Logan actually does have a pretty good mind to go with the capacity for ripping things to shreds. And he really does care deeply about things, no matter how hard he tries to hide it. So giving him a mystery to solve, combined with a hunt for a kidnapped boy, and a running battle at the climax, it's all just a perfect opportunity to show off as many of his skills as possible.
The advice I kept on mentally shouting as I was reading, and which I'll now pass on to you, is this: Don't trust anything too much. Things probably aren't entirely what they seem to be.