Outline
Valérian is shredded by a salvo of shots in the palace of a Maharajah. Valérian, leaving a posh London club, falls unto an unfathomable abyss of space. Valérian, cut down in the back in a hail of bullets in Chinatown, San Francisco. Valérian, killed by thugs on the platform of an old Parisian bus. And Laureline, impotently watching this carnage of Valérian clones…
One of the strangest adventures in the Valérian series, where the two heroes get to grips with artificial worlds fight to defend their quite real happiness…
(translated from the back cover blurb to the French edition)
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