Del Rey/Ballantine, New York, 2005, 1^st/1^st.  ISBN 0-345-47946-7.  MMPB, 305 pages.  Based on the Warner Bros. Pictures film.  Unread copy with a bit of edge wear.  ‘Bruce Wayne is dead.  The young heir to the Wayne empire disappeared seven years ago.  His vast fortune has been given away, and the crime wave that began with the brutal murder of his parents has turned Gotham City into a living hell. …  A world away, in a dank Himalayan prison, a nameless, hardened man fights every day to survive.  He has spent seven years scouring the globe, studying the criminal mind, looking for an answer to the ugly riddle of his childhood.  But something has been looking for him, too.  Here, in the darkest places of his own anger, Bruce Wayne will discover his destiny – and an ordinary man will become a legend.’ (from rear wrap)