Punisher Max By Garth Ennis Omnibus HC

Born:
The year is 1971. With mounting casualties and a rising anti-war sentiment, America's time in Vietnam is coming to a close. Yet in the isolated Valley Forge Firebase on the Cambodian border, Captain Frank Castle is one of the few soldiers still committed to the fight against the enemy. With dwindling reserves, Castle must stand against an impending Viet Cong attack that threatens to wipe out the entire American platoon. To survive the battle, what grim decision must he make that will forever alter the course of his life?

In The Beginning:
The Punisher's old partner Microchip returns to capture him. He tries to make a deal with Frank, offers him a job working for the Government, but Frank does not except. Meanwhile the remaining gang members from a crime family the Punisher takes out groups together and try to kill him.

Kitchen Irish:
While the Punisher is at a dinner a bomb goes off killing many. Frank learns that Irish mobster Fin Cooley is behind it. Through his acquaintance Yorkie Mitchell, Frank learns that their is a gang war going on between the Irish Mobs. When the Punisher puts pressure on them and starts killing off their members Fin Cooley and Maginty join forces to try and stop him.

Mother Russia:
One night Frank goes after a old criminal that once escaped from him two years ago and went to prison instead. He was a murder and dealt in child prostitution and got out of prison after only two years. After killing him at his house Frank encounters a old acquaintance, Nick Fury. Fury reveals that it was him who set up the release of the man that Frank killed in order to contact him. Fury reveals that he is working for the army and airforce and offers Frank a job. Frank agrees to help him. In the Byrranga Mountains of Russia there was a scientist named Evgeny Stenkov that created a flesh eating virus called Barbarossa. It was capable of eating all the flesh from a humans body within minutes. The scientists was captured and integrated but he died. His daughter Galina Stenkov caries the virus, but she is immune to it due to being pumped full of antidotes. Frank is sent to Russia to retrieve the girl.

Up is Down and Black is White:
After eradicating a gang that was heavily involved in the drug trade of New York, Frank goes to a pup for a meal. There he sees on the television that a man named Nicky Cavella had dug up the bodies of his family and urinated on their remains. This causes Frank to lose control of himself. He starts killing criminals non-stop, working his way to Nicky. First he takes out some mobsters at a strip club which leads him to one of their safehouses. There he finally gets the information of Nickiy's whereabouts. At this point he has gone days without sleep and is having hallucinations of his family. Frank walks straight up to Nicky's base of operations blindly and would of been killed if not for Kathryn O'Brien

Kathryn, along with William Roth save the Punisher and take him back to Roth's apartment. They also take Kathryn's ex-husband and integrate him for information about Nicky. There Kathryn stitches up the Punisher's wounds and he manages to get some rest and actually start thinking normally again. Frank recognizes Kathryn from when he first spotted her after back when Microchip captured him. She reveals that she was in prison for a while and she no longer works for the goverment. While stitching up Frank's wounds she asks him of he wants to have sex afterwards which he agrees to. While sleeping in bed, Punisher and Kathryn are attacked by Nicky's bodyguard. After a long fight, Frank holds her down and Kathryn shoots her in the face, killing her. Later Kathryn's ex husband escapes and kills Roth. He manages to get away. The Punisher then kidnaps Nicky and takes him out to the woods and shoots him in the gut. He leaves him there to slowly bleed out as he walks away.

The Slavers:
After saving a women she begs Frank for help saying that men killed her baby. Frank takes her back to his safe house where she reveals her name to be Viorica. She tells Frank about she was from Moldova. She was kidnapped from her village at the age of fifteen, raped, forced into prostitution, impregnated, and sold to Americans. She says that she escaped with her baby and found a social worker named Jen Cooke willing to help her, but the men found her and killed her baby. With this information The Punisher then takes out the gang using extreme acts of violence never seen before.