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 s