Cody Pomeray had a gift for looking inside a person&s soul with just a glance This ability served him well as the crook blew through the early 1980s finding marks & picking them clean But one fateful night he targeted the wrong man & was sentenced to the most savage prison in California Pomeray would have been beaten to death on his first day if not for the intervention of Barnaby Creed the most powerful crime lord in the Southland Now five years later Pomeray&s out on parole robbed of his special ability & tasked with doing Creed "a little favor" He has no idea he&s just stepped into a long con & this time he&s the mark Collects the complete Ex-Con comic book storyline issues 1-5 by Keith Burns Duane Swierczynski