The first ten issues of the Eisner and Harvey Award-winning series is collected in hardcover for the first time! Written by Ed Brubaker (Captain America) and Greg Rucka (Detective Comics, 52), this series pitted the detectives of Gotham City's Special Crimes Unit against the city's greatest villains – in the shadow of Batman himself.

This volume collects two cases of the Gotham Special Crimes Unit. In the first, a cop is killed by Mister Freeze, and the squad is in a race against time to bring him in without the help of the Dark Knight. In the second story–the acclaimed, award-winning “Half a Life”–Detective Renee Montoya is outed as a lesbian and finds her work environment and personal life turned upside down. Things only become more complicated when she’s kidnapped by Two-Face. This debut volume features an introduction by acclaimed mystery author Lawrence Block.

艾德·布鲁贝克的早期作品包括获艾斯纳奖提名的《意外死亡》及《罪案现场》等。之后他为DC主线以及其旗下的成人副线Vertigo和WildStorm公司创作了许多经典作品。包括《蝙蝠侠》《走投无路》《沉睡者》《猫女》《哥谭重案组》等。时下，他为漫威公司写作，并奉献了《超 胆侠》《X战警》《美国队长：冬日战士》等一大批脍炙人口的作品。

格雷格·卢卡是一名知名作家，他的小说作品包括《午夜枪击》《临界空间》《爱国者法案》《私人战争》及《绅士的游戏》等。在漫画方面，他参与了许多知名角色和作品的创作，如《蝙蝠侠》《侦探漫画》《动作漫画》《神奇女侠》《金刚狼》等。他与杰夫·琼斯、格兰特·莫里森及马克·韦德合作了《52》。同艾德·布鲁贝克合作了《哥谭重案组》和《超胆侠》。

迈克尔·拉克的一生都献身于绘画事业。但他直到1994年才进入主流漫画行业，为Vertigo公司创作了《终点之城》。自此以后，他那黑色电影的绘画风格出现在《罪案现场》《鹰男传奇》《睡魔神秘剧场》《超人：世界之战》《蝙蝠侠：九条命》《哥谭重案组》等作品中。他也是畅销书作家迈克尔·查邦第一部漫画作品《美国正义协会》的绘画作者。