Larry B. Max is one of the few specialists in the special department of the I.R.S., a powerful tax collection agency in the United States. Looking at the accounts of a billionaire, Larry starts a dangerous recovery to the origins of his fortune...
Graphic novel
1999
Crime
Franco-Belgian
I.R.$.
- Le Lombard Publisher
- Stephen Desberg Writer
- Bernard Vrancken Artist
- Daniel Koller Artist
- Carlos Rafael Duarte Artist
Details
- Type
- Graphic novel
- Release
- 1999-04-01
- Genres
- Crime, Franco-Belgian
- Volumes
- 26
- Status
- Ongoing
- Information verified on
- 8 octobre 2026
Synopsis
I.R.$.
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Volume 1 — The tax route
Larry B. Max is one of the few specialists in the special department of the I.R.S., a powerful tax collection agency in the United States. Looking at the accounts of a billionaire, Larry starts a dangerous recovery to the origins of his fortune...
Volume 2 — The Hagen strategy
Officer in the special department of the I.R.S., the tax collector in the USA, Larry B. Max continues his investigation into the immense fortune of Moshe Geldhof. Known and respected for his always commitment to the crusade for the recovery of gold and silver confiscated by the Nazis, this rich American is an untouchable one.
Volume 3 — Blue Ice
With a tax computer as sixth-sense, Larry B. Max continues to denounce the links between high finance and big crime as if he had a dark account to settle with the very rich rot of this world. Ryan Ricks, sought by the DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency), the anti-drug brigade, as well as the IRS (Internal Revenue Service), arrives at the airport of Los Angeles where he is immediately spotted. As an expert of screen, offshore and virtual companies, the man indeed has a heavy past in the international money laundering of dirty money. His return to LA is all the more risky and surprising since it coincides with a series of liquidations within the local representation of Mexican cartels. Larry B. Max, the agent of IRS, can only be linked to a gigantic case.
Volume 4 — Narcocracy
Larry B. Max continues to run Ryan Ricks. The implacable agent of the IRS hopes thus to distil the mysterious billionaire who resorts to the services of this expert in money laundering. Although sought by the anti-drug brigade and the tax administration, Ryan Ricks took the risk of disembarking in Los Angeles. For Larry B.Max, this stroke of audacity could only be linked to a very important transaction. He did indeed soon discover that Ricks had come to negotiate the purchase of one of the most powerful cartels of drugs and that through him, or hundreds of millions of dollars, someone somewhere had decided to clean up and to afford a sector as prosperous as illegal from economic activity. Ryan Ricks' spinning leads Larry to Mexico. From Tijuana to San Miguel de Allende, the incorruptible of the fisc will attempt to dismantle the incredible financial and logistical montage that aims to give to this gigantic traffic, an almost honest industrial face. However, the task turns out to be a dangerously sensitive one-to-resist problem, the problem of the not-to-resounding one-to-to-turns the problem, the problem, the whole of the criminal one-to-to-to-to-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-right thing-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-s--the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-new-new-new-new-new-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-new-the-the-
Volume 5 — Silicia Inc.
"Sicilia is there, somewhere to absorb money. It is crucial that we discover for what purpose." Once again, Larry B.Max, the incorruptible American tax collector, hunts down the criminals of high finance. Exiled in France and accused of embezzlement, the former president of an Asian republic was murdered. Officially, by Islamists! Meanwhile, in the Californian desert, the I.R.S. tries to take the mayor of a city in flagrante delicto of corruption. However, the hoped proof cannot be established: the man of hand of the corrupt being shot down. On his corpse, Larry B.Max nevertheless discovered an intriguing message, "Sicilia. 10 AM. Ocean Drive". But, a mysterious young woman is trying to remove all the clues on the track that he follows.
Volume 6 — The Corruptionr
White knight of the American tax department, Larry B.Max continues his investigation into the mysterious company Silicia Inc. Responsible for managing criminal trafficking involving a colonel of the US Army and the ex-dictator of an Asian republic.
Volume 7 — Corporate America
Larry B. Max is very personally interested in the research he coordinates on the Eastern Garden Oil based in Tbilisi, on the borders of the former USSR. What is particularly intriguing him is the actions of the two Americans who share the property: Laurence Upshaw and Johnny Madsen. The latter is in particular the target of his investigations. At the death of his father, Larry was forced to give him the shares he inherited from a film studio in Hollywood. Together with his partner, this business shark invested heavily in the election to the White House of the oil magnate candidate. If Harper is elected, all Corporate America will be in power!
Volume 8 — The Black War
How far can a man go to protect his family? Larry B. Max's most personal investigation is approaching his outcome. Indeed, he has only a few hours left to prevent the man who ruined his family and threatened his family from completing his final package. The evil Johnny Madsen is about to bring a fatal blow to Saudi power and to put the veils with the benefit of the barrels of oil whose price will not fail to increase. This time, Larry B. Max plays the meaning of his life and that of his only love, Gloria Paradise.
Volume 9 — Roman connections
Larry B. Max is definitely a strange agent of the I.R.S., the American tax! Not content to read people's thoughts through columns of numbers, he even finds forgotten pages of history there. Thus, under the offshore accounts of Markus Scailes, perhaps the consequences of a most secret agreement between the Third Reich and the Vatican are hidden. But the accounts of the Roman Curia are one of his best kept secrets.
Volume 10 — The Lodge of the Murderers
It is said that only the devil would be crazy enough to attack the Vatican bank in front of him. The devil. or Larry B. Max annoyed by a miracle a little too practical? It is indeed quite rare that the body of his main suspect be delivered to him on a tray, accompanied by all possible documents with charge! But the agent of the I.R.S. is ready to risk eternal rest to discover the ties that unite from high religious dignitaries to former SS officers. Following and end of a diptych that brilliantly reconnects with the themes that made the success of the series.
Volume 11 — The way to Gloria
While he just came back from Rome, Larry B. Max was caught up again by his ghosts! More than ten years after the plane accident that cost his parents his life, new information tends to prove that this crash was sponsored. Johnny Madsen's shadow is again hovering over Larry and his ex, Gloria. But the agent of the I.R.S. won't let the memories devour him! Desberg returns to the past of his character while Vrancken explores new graphic paths, which magnify his trait a little more.
Volume 12 — On behalf of the President
Always looking for the man who commissioned the murder of his parents, Larry B. Max is hardly more advanced! Indeed, digging up hidden accounts is one thing, exhuming the little secrets of Hollywood is another. That's how the Medusa built her fortune. He intends to make sure that her activity remains a monopoly and no matter what the lusts that can arouse. Drugs, sex, corpses... we find everything while stirring up the mud of the City of Angels. Larry is ready to go to the end, but does he only know the price that he will have to pay for certain truths?
Volume 13 — Yamashita's Gold
By disembarking in Bangkok to end the murder of Gloria, Larry B. Max did not know that he was setting foot in the territory of Master Ianfu, a prominent member of the Chinese triads. He was obliged to hand over the head of the murderer. In exchange, he gave him ten days to accomplish the impossible: to find the gold of the Yamashita, his family treasure that had disappeared after the Second World War. Ten days, not one more. Otherwise, the I.R.$. and the FBI will receive a charge on Larry's personal vendetta...
Volume 14 — Nankin's survivors
By disembarking in Bangkok to end the murder of Gloria, Larry B. Max did not know that he was setting foot in the territory of Master Ianfu, a prominent member of the Chinese triads. He was obliged to hand over the head of the murderer. In exchange, he gave him ten days to accomplish the impossible: to find the gold of the Yamashita, his family treasure, disappeared at the end of World War II. Ten days, no more. Otherwise, the I.R.$. and the FBI. will receive a charge on Larry's personal vendetta... Desberg and Vrancken bleed out the hours, and put our nerves to a severe test!
Volume 15 — Gains on Death
Iraq, 2005. At the time of the transfer of relays to the Iraqi security forces, General McKenna checks the state of the stocks that will be transferred by the US army. More than half of the weapons delivered by the Pentagon are missing. Tens of thousands of war weapons have disappeared in nature... A few years later, the IRS is on the track of Diego Barral, a known smuggler.
Volume 16 — Options for War
Iraq, 2005. At the time of the transfer of relays to the Iraqi security forces, General McKenna checks the state of the stocks that will be transferred by the US army. More than half of the weapons delivered by the Pentagon are missing. Tens of thousands of war weapons have disappeared in nature... A few years later, the IRS is on the track of Diego Barral, a known smuggler.
Volume 17 — Larry's paradise
After he resigned from the IRS, Larry Max puts his talents at the service of a private investment company. Has the best agent of the American tax company turned his jacket or is it a mission of infiltration? Whatever Larry's plans, they suddenly go into second place after a phone call that upsets him: "Allo, Larry? This is Gloria..."
Volume 18 — Kate's hell
After he resigned from the IRS, Larry Max puts his talents at the service of a private investment company. Has the best agent of the American tax company turned his jacket or is it a mission of infiltration? Whatever Larry's plans, they suddenly go into second place after a phone call that upsets him: "Allo, Larry? This is Gloria..."
Volume 19 — The financial lords
More determined than ever to fight against financial crime, Larry B. Max decided to oppose his father's reappearance from the dead. He became the main shareholder of Channing Corporation, a financial group closely linked to Robert Max and playing a key role in the agreements negotiated between China and the United States. With the help of Jakoff, alterglobalist and financial genius, Larry is about to expose the fraudulent deals that American banks have made with the Chinese.
Volume 20 — The Stock Exchange Demons
In recent years, China has become the owner of more than a trillion dollars of US debt. Chinese and American governments have embarked on a perilous death dance. The pace has become so strong that they have reached an inevitable break-up. From now on, it is war. On the one hand, the richest Chinese investors, on the other, a consortium of white supremacists who seem to dictate the trends of US finance. In the middle: Larry Max, now pursued by the I.R.$ and the FBI but more determined than ever to follow the trace of dirty money to the highest spheres of society.
Volume 21 — The Fall of Angels
Larry is 40 years old and has become a senator. He has now been living a family life since he married Diane, with whom he had two children. For a few weeks, he has been the target of ignoble accusations. He is accused of having pushed his predecessor into suicide to take his place. Will he also deny the existence of Lorna and Jetta, two former mistresses who accuse him of abuse of power and murders under cover of his duties at the IRS? Things will still spoil when Lorna is murdered at Larry's feet and the moment is immortalized by a young photographer.
Volume 22 — The Resurrection of the Convicted
Is anyone really aware of someone? That's the question Diane, Larry B. Max's wife, must answer. Is her husband the virtuous senator and good family father she married, or a white knight drunk of her mission whose intransigence has pushed her benefactor to suicide? Larry, he investigates another identity: who is Jonny, her accuser of the shadow? And his only informant has just died with only time to tell her a psychiatric hospital, ideal for the outcome of the most hichcockian of her adventures.
Volume 23 — Land fraud
While the flames of global warming are failing to devour his family in California, Larry B. Max is trying to fight this scourge from Washington. This time, the sick, dirty money trail put the senator on the trail of the Homeplanet Institute, a company of consultants of a kind a bit special. Their business is pollution. And they have no worries to watch the world burn, nor to stir up the stake with the bodies of their opponents...
Volume 24 — Climate Predators
By presenting a trans-party project of action against global warming, Larry Max still hopes to move things through the democratic path. But is it not worth losing in an America where extremists are weighing on the debate with explosives and other gunfire? Yet, he is not alone in leading the ecological fight. Former Vice President Shore seems determined to return to politics. And he has understood very well how this country works...
Volume 25 — $33 billion
Larry Max, former IRS Senator and former agent, is contacted to manage the $30 billion legacy of a seriously ill billionaire. But to get control of this fortune, Larry has to pull his pin from the game in a deadly competition with other candidates, from organized crime and elites. And such a sum of money awakens the appetites of the greatest predators. Taken in a spiral of manipulations, Larry will have to navigate between murder and corruption to save his skin and reveal the truth.
Volume 26 — The Art of Profit
Former federal agent Larry Max faces a network of elites speculating on the ruins of wars to build real estate paradises. Between manipulations, state violence and financial cynicism, he fights to reveal the truth and preserve the humanity that the world seems to want to sacrifice.