Fragments of madmen

Avirous Racanelli was the firepower, not the brains. As a US Marine, he followed orders until those orders required him to kill children during a black-ops raid on a Biochemical Intelligence Mecha (B.I.M.) manufacturing plant. Now dishonorably discharged and haunted by the suspicious "e;professional"e; death of his father, Jack, Avirous descends into the neon-drenched streets of Neo Japan to finish a mission that never officially existed.Armed with nothing but his father's encrypted tapes and a keycard to a hotel room he was never supposed to enter, Avirous uncovers a conspiracy that stretches from the floating platforms of Osaka to the high-rises of Seoul. The B.I.M. plants were never the real objective—they were merely the surface operation for a delivery system that turns organic tissue into a weapon.Joined by an underground food stall operator with organizational tattoos and a Seoul detective operating far outside his jurisdiction, Avirous must navigate a city that looks like a grid but acts like a nervous system. As the three men converge on a bay-facing warehouse in Kobe, they realize they aren't just hunting a phantom—they are being hunted by the very network they are trying to dismantle.