Richard Wentworth is a former Iraqi veteran, who gave up his life and future for his country because he didn't know if he would make it back alive. Now that he is home alive, he uses his skills and family wealth to keep his city clean.
When a toxic gas is released into the city, by a crazed woman calling herself Anput (named after an Egyptian Goddess), turning the city's residents into zombies, The Spider will do what it takes to bring Anput down even if that means bringing down his own father.
With his friend the police commissioner, Stanley Kirkpatrick, who thinks the knows that Richard is The Spider, looking the other way, Richard's friends Ram Singh and Professor Brownley help him take down Anput and develop and antidote to the poison, which has infected the love of his life and the commissioners wife, Nita.
Interesting. It was a little convoluted for me. At first I wasn't sure why Richard couldn't be with the woman he loved, only to realize he made the ultimate sacrifice of turning her away years earlier and harshly, because he wasn't sure he would come back from the war alive, or at all. But once he did, he tortures himself by still going to see her ever though she married to the commissioner and they are friends.
There is a Detective Hilt, who is suspects Richard is The Spider and will bring him down at any cost, even when Richard it saving people.
When Richard goes to the ball park and saves a dozen or so people, Hilt wants to arrest him. The character says he saved the illegally. I don't know how that's done. By not paying for a ticket to get into the area. What about what he did was illegal? That part makes no sense to me.
Richard also seems so bitter. I know being at war can't be easy, but many people come back from something like that and don't become vigilantes. I just don't understand his motivation. Join the police force. But actually killing people and marking them is a strange way to go.
Entertaining read, but I won't pick up another volume.
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