V for Vendetta

V for Vendetta is a graphic novel written by Alan Moore and illustrated by David Lloyd. The book is set in an imagined dystopian United Kingdom which has just come out of a nuclear war and is being ruled by a fascist party that has eliminated all its rivals and established a police state. The main protagonist called simply V is an anarchist revolutionary who targets this government in an attempt to bring it down.The book begins with the members of the state secret police trying to rape a young sixteen year old Evey Hammond. V who sports a Guy Fawkes mask saves her. V has been trying to overthrow the government and he begins by getting rid of a pedophile priest and mentally deranging the propaganda broadcasting personality. A little into the story we soon realize that V was once a victim of a cruel chemical experiment performed by the government. Everyone other than V perished in those experiments and he was bestowed with exceptional reflexes and a high threshold for pain. V routinely sabotages and murders people who had been involved in the chemical experiments. V sets in motion a chain of events that will ensure that the people get what they want and the government is overthrown. Will V manage to take revenge on everyone who was involved with the experiments?V for Vendetta is a tale about ideological good and the evil. The new edition of the book was published in 2008 by RHUS and is available in paperback.Key Features: The book was adapted into a feature film of the same name in 2005.