1. note: Vlad came to america around the same time as Vinnie
2. setting: new york city 2012
3. the bullet is laced with a special compound chemical that is easy to trace but hard to make.
4. Note: story is in 3 volumes
   1. this is chapter 1 in volume 1
5. Narrative Structure: Character
   1. Main Protagonist: Detective Donald "Dom" Williams
      1. is ambitious
      2. suffers from anxiety takes "pills"
      3. is very distant from partner
      4. is mysterious
         1. dark past
            1. father abandonment issues
   2. PD. Charles Goldburg
      1. hard working
      2. Partner of Dom
      3. does not truly know his partner Dom
         1. see's dom taking pills
         2. is jealous of Dom's quick uprising in the police force
   3. Commissioner Lewis
      1. 5 years before retirement
         1. old, experience, tired
      2. seen a lot of action
         1. fought in mob wars for 20 years
      3. wife is ill with cancer
         1. is hoping to ease her pain
   4. "Skinny Vinnie"
      1. head boss of the Italian Mob
      2. rival with Vlad
      3. business with smuggling and dealing drugs in city
         1. linked with the morphine outage in city
   5. Vladamir Mogilevich
      1. rivalry with Vinnie
      2. Head boss of Russian Mob
      3. deals with smuggling people
         1. linked with "bullet"
6. Narrative Structure: Conflict
   1. Dead women
      1. women unknown for the first part of comic
         1. death by special imprinted bullet in head
   2. Stolen arms and "special bullets from Gun store
      1. links with bullet that killed women
      2. evidence shows toward Mob feud
   3. Stolen drugs
      1. possible new link for case
      2. the drug is morphine
7. Narrative Structure: Conclusion
   1. angered partner
      1. jealous of Dom's success in force
      2. backstabs in the end
         1. tells Commissoner about Dom's addiction
   2. missing ammo found
      1. found dead cop with same bullet from dead women case
      2. leads to killing people with only those bullets
   3. drugs info
      1. morphine war among the mafia
      2. Dom's addicted to it