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After having his face sliced off one year ago, the Joker makes his horrifying return to Gotham City! But this time, he's not after Batman... just the people Bruce Wayne holds most dear. Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo's entire masterpiece saga and one of the greatest Joker stories ever is collected in in trade paperback for the first time ever!Even for a man who's committed a lifetime of murder, the Joker is more dangerous than ever before. A more vicious Clown Prince of Crime targets Batman's family--Batgirl, Nightwing, Red Hood, Red Robin and his own son, Damian Wayne, a.k.a. Robin--in a sick and twisted gambit to make the Dark Knight all his own! How can Batman protect his city and those he's closest to? It all leads back to Arkham Asylum... From #1 New York Times best-selling team of writer Scott Snyder and artist Greg Capullo presents the critically acclaimed tale in its entirety.
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Scott Snyder is senior fellow for Korea studies and director of the program on U.S.-Korea policy at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) , where he served as an adjunct fellow from 2008 to 2011. He served as the project director for the CFR's Independent Task Force on policy toward the Korean Peninsula in 2009-2010. He is based in Washington, DC, and writes for CFR's blog, "Asia Unbound."
Prior to joining CFR, Scott Snyder was Director of the Center for U.S.-Korea Policy at The Asia Foundation and a Senior Associate at Pacific Forum CSIS. He lived in Seoul, South Korea as Korea Representative of The Asia Foundation during 2000-2004. He has also served as a Program Officer in the Research and Studies Program of the U.S. Institute of Peace, and as Acting Director of The Asia Society's Contemporary Affairs Program. Snyder received his B.A. from Rice University and an M.A. from the Regional Studies East Asia Program at Harvard University. He was the recipient of a Pantech Visiting Fellowship at Stanford University's Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center during 2005-2006, received an Abe Fellowship, administered by the Social Sciences Research Council, in 1998-99, and was a Thomas G. Watson Fellow at Yonsei University in South Korea in 1987-88.
Mr. Snyder is the editor of The U.S.-South Korea Alliance: Meeting New Security Challenges (forthcoming 2012, Lynne Rienner Publishers) and the author of China's Rise and the Two Koreas: Politics, Economics, Security (2009) . Other publications include Paved With Good Intentions: The NGO Experience in North Korea (2003) , co-edited with L. Gordon Flake and Negotiating on the Edge: North Korean Negotiating Behavior (1999) .
