Corto Maltese: Le etiopiche

Compilation of three Corto's adventures, all set in 1918. In "Out of Misery" Corto is asked by his friend, a Bedouin called El Oxford, to help him infiltrate a Turkish fort in Yemen and rescue young boy Prince Saud who is being held hostage by his unscrupulous uncle. They are joined by Cush, an extreme coldblooded Danakil (African ethnic group) fighter who hates most white people, seeing them as occupiers, and always quotes the Quran. The key to their mission could be the Scottish prisoners of war, but things get very complicated. Some time later, Cush is whipped by a cowardly commander of a small British military unit. Cush's revenge is swift, cold and brutal. In "Different Romeos. Other Juliets, Cush and Corto are now almost friends. They arrive at Cush's village in Ethiopia just as a war between his Muslim village and the neighboring Christian village is about to break out over the Christian village chief's missing daughter. She fell for a Muslim, but her father forbade her to ...