Blow Up the Ashes: American Mayhem Vol. 2

reveals the story of Pierre Doucet, a gambler and then a killer for the New Orleans mob during World War 2 who at one time admires from afar a yellow-haired girl. When decades later he travels to New York, he meets KJ again. They discover she was his “yellow-haired girl. “KJ learns Pierre is a killer, but instead of drawing back in horror joins him. KJ and Buckles come together at the novels’ end when Buckles wreaks revenge on Big Bill.