Synopsis

New cover artist Dave Johnson (100 BULLETS) debut as things heat up in the newly rebuilt Gotham City. Batman and the GCPD go to war with the crime families attempting to seize control of the city. Also, who is Whisper A'Daire? And why are she and the assassin known only as Abbot threatening to cripple Gotham and bring the Dark Knight to his knees?

No Man’s Land is over. Gotham City has been rebuilt and organized crime is moving in with a vengeance keeping Batman and the Gotham City Police busy every day of the week. Ra’s Al Ghul sends a female assassin named Whisper and her associate Mr. Abbot to take out the Batman. They have an elixir and a secret!

Plot Summary

Roughly 3 months after "No Man Lands" Gotham has been craved up by five major crime families, the Lucky Hand Triads, the Colombians, the Odessa Mob, the Sicilian Mafia and the Burnley Massive, and Batman has made it his personal mission to show each and everyone one of them that Gotham is his city.

Unknown to the detective, Ra' al Ghul has sent Whisper A'Daire and Kyle Abbot to Gotham to claim it for the Demon's Head, and their plan is to pit the different families against each.

While Abbot is out killing the Triad's leader's wife and blaming it on the Russian, Whisper is attending the Gala for the rebuilt Public Library, where she meets Bruce Wayne and other influential people and charms them with her feminine wilds.

After Bruce leaves the Gala he decides to check on the Burnley Massive Orphanage, which he suspects is a front for illegal dealing. There he is ambushed by Abbot, who after drinking a strange liquid given to him by Ra' al Ghul, transforms into a werewolf like creature.

Before, Batman can stop Abbot he reveals a trigger that blows up the entire building supposably killing them both.