Suicide Squad: Trial By Fire (New Edition)

<b>The classic story that inspired THE SUICIDE SQUAD feature film written and directed by James Gunn now available with a new cover!&#160;</b><br><br>In the late 1980s a secret government program designed to neutralize super-powered threats to national security was reactivated.<br>&#160;<br>Task Force X had gone through many transformations since it was first created during World War II but one thing had never changed: its members called themselves the Suicide Squad and they lived up to their name.<br>&#160;<br>Faced with a rising tide of metahuman crime and terror the program&#146;s hard-headed director Amanda Waller sold the President on her vision of an updated Task Force X: a covert action team composed of incarcerated super-villains who earned time off their sentences for every mission they completed. Deniable disposable and deployable to any spot-on Earth this new Suicide Squad would be the perfect weapon of last resort &#151; as long as they could be kept under control.&#160;<br>