Written by GARY PHILLIPS Art by BRIAN HURTT Cover by LEE BERMEJO From the author of the Monk detective novels comes a riveting original graphic novel about violence & race in modern society COWBOYS revolves around a racially motivated police shooting of Deke Kotto a young African American man by Tim Brady a white undercover cop inside a swanky club frequented by hip-hop stars gangsters Hollywood celebs & the drug kingpins that finance the whole operation But the victim is actually an undercover officer on the trail of the gangsters caught in the wrong place at the wrong time