Kabuki Circle of Blood by David Mack, 272 pages

Collecting all six issues of the first Kabuki series plus the hard to find prequel one-shot with new pages of art from scenes that for space reasons were left out of the original story. It also includes in-depth notes and story analysis about the subtext of the story. Circle of Blood recounts the origins of the government operative known as Kabuki who works in Japan's near future, It's an exploration of the relationship between Japan's government and organized crime on a truly epic scale! 
Read this for book club and I can honestly say that is the only reason I read it and finished it. This was not my cup of tea and not anything I would every pickup again.