Unknown Soldier
The Hell in the Heavens trilogy reaches its conclusion as murder enters the equations of espionage and aerial warfare that have been building across three issues. Irma Thomas carries the weight of the final revelation. Von Hammer endures. The war continues.
Kanigher closes the trilogy with the efficiency of a practiced genre writer, the murder plot resolves cleanly while von Hammer's larger situation remains as unresolved as ever. Severin's ability to convey both the formal precision of combat and the moral messiness of spy-thriller plotting is one of the underappreciated qualities of these Unknown Soldier issues.
