The snake pit

When homeless orphan Marcus Lopez was asked to join a shadowy schoolspecializing in training the next generation of the world's deadliest assassins,he figured he had nothing left to lose.

He was wrong. Now, Marcus and hisone-time lover Maria are thrown to the wolves when a Mexican Cartel, the familyof a classmate they were forced to kill, comes gunning for revenge.

The truecosts of the life he's chosen to live are only just dawning on Marcus.

Incapable of staving off the ravages of love, life, and death, he plungesheadfirst into a black pit of drugs, sex, and self-destruction. And just whenthings seemingly can't get any worse, Finals Season descends on the school. Andin this world final exams can be murder!Continuing the cult-hit dark teen drama, writer Rick Remender and artist WesCraig take readers on the darkest road through 1980s San Francisco, and the kidsthat ruled its streets.