In his quest to prove that Bruce Wayne is alive, Tim Drake has crossed some lines--most notably allying himself with Ra's al Ghul and the League of Assassins. But Tim hasn't forgot Batman's ethics, and he uses his inside knowledge of the League to do serious damage to its worldwide operations. Now Ra's al Ghul himself is out for Tim's blood, and he intends to get revenge by destroying everything Tim Drake and Red Robin hold dead.
This is part three of the arc begun in The Grail (as far as I can tell, part two, Council of Spiders has not been collected). This book is cool in that it manages to be a somewhat self-contained story (Red Robin angers the League, then fights them off all in this volume), while still providing a really satisfying conclusion to the story begun in Grail. Tim really comes into his own here, managing to be both Batman's protege and his own brand of superhero (seriously, the way in which Tim *spoiler* wins *end spoiler* is so great I had to go back and read it a second time). The ending hints at an interesting new direction for Drake, and I'm curious to see where it goes. There's not a lot of this series, as it launched just shortly before the New 52 reboot, but I hope to track down at least one more collection.
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