Marv tortures and kills them, getting the name of the person who sent him. The next thing Marv knows, two assassins come after him. Marv knows that whoever set him up is probably looking for him, so he goes to a bar and spreads the idea that he's been getting drunk and babbling about revenge. He goes to his mother's house and retrieves his gun, and there he discovers that some men came around, asking about him. Goldie is Marv's angel, the one woman who has been nice to him and given herself to him. Marv fights his way out and disappears into the streets of Sin City. Before Marv has time to process what's happened, he hears sirens in the distance. Three hours later, he's awake and Goldie is dead. He gets drunk with her, makes love with her, and falls asleep with her. He doesn't want to ask any questions, though, and destroy the little piece of heaven he's found in the hell that is Sin City. Marv ekes out retribution, though he pays for it in the electric chair.Īs the story begins, Marv wonders to himself why the angelic Goldie would agree to sleep with him. Marv is both hunter and hunted as he traces the murder up through Sin City to a corrupt cardinal and a cannibalistic serial killer preying on the city's prostitutes. Marv is framed for the murder of beautiful prostitute Goldie, and feeling a connection with her though they only shared one night together, Marv goes on a search for her killer. Frank Miller's Sin City: The Hard Goodbye tells the story of Marv, a psychotic, disfigured, ex-military killer living in a decadent and corrupt city.
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