Book Description

Early in the 21st Century, the Tyrell Corporation advanced Robot evolution into the Nexus phase – a being virtually identical to a human – known as a Replicant. Used as slave labor Off-world, escaped Replicants on Earth were hunted by Blade Runner units, tasked with killing them on sight. The rumors of bootleg Replicants appearing in the Far East has prompted the Tyrell Corporation to investigate, determined to protect its monopoly on synthetic humans. Corporate agents and Blade Runners have been deployed to aggressively eliminate any threat from these industrial pirates. In Tokyo, ex-Marine Mead and Replicant Combat Model Stix work as off-the-book P.I.s while searching for the traitor who betrayed them during an unsanctioned mission to Kalanthia. A spree of brutal killings, apparently by a rogue Replicant, has the city on edge, and Stix a suspect. A young woman named Sayo hires Mead and Stix to find Miyuki, her missing sister. LAPD Blade Runner, Rumika, arrives in Tokyo to investigate the brutal killings of the rogue Replicant and interviews Mead. Meanwhile, Stix witnesses the abduction of a Replicant by members of the Yakuza and gives chase. When the body of Miyuki is discovered, Sayo takes Mead and Rumika to the dead girl’s apartment. However, before Sayo can give any more information, she is shot with an arrow and with her dying breath names Stix as her killer…