After making the fateful decision to defy his fellow Hunters and save a young girl's life, Spas finds himself caught between the worlds of the Normals and the Twilights. Branded a traitor by the Hunters, yet still considered an enemy by all the other factions, he's on the run and desperately trying to find his way through the carnage and chaos that surround him. For mature audiences.
No longer able to ignore what his consicence is telling him, Spas finally tracks down Maverick and confronts her. With time running out and deaths piling up, can he convince her to turn away from her twisted ideology of salvation?
Spas has lost the sense of justice that gave his life meaning. Striker still lives only for the thrill of the hunt. The rift between their moral stances forces Spas to break the promise they'd once made to each other, initiating a bloody parting that will scar them both forever. The final volume of Marco Adriano's hidden history of savagery and redemption.
In the city of Ergastulum, a shady ville fi lled with made men and petty thieves, whores on the make and cops on the take, there are some deeds too dirty for even its jaded inhabitants to touch. Enter the Handymen, Nic and Worick, who take care of the jobs no one else will handle. Until the day when a cop they know on the force requests their help in taking down a new gang muscling in on the territory of a top Mafi a family. It seems like business (and mayhem) as usual, but the Handymen are about to fi nd that this job is a lot more than they bargained for. [(W/A/CA) Kohske]
Ergastulum is a tough town, a place where the rule of law takes a backseat to the law of violence, where Handymen like Nic and Worick make a living doing odd jobs from routine deliveries to extrajudicial killings. Discreet, ruthless, and efficient, the men are respected by both the police brass and the Mafia dons, but it took many long, hard years for them to make their names. Behind those years is the hidden history of how the scion of an elite family and a boy soldier of the Twilights ranks formed an improbable, unbreakable bond. [(W/A/CA) Kohske]
As Hunters infiltrate the city of Ergastulum, more and more Twilights fall victim to the violence and chaos that result. The Cristiano Family, traditionally (and secretly) charged with overseeing the Twilight population, is keeping a close eye on events - and they don't like what they see. The young Cristiano boss hires the Handymen to escort Twilights to a safe house for protection, but a new, even more dangerous threat is on their doorstep.
The Hunters and the Destroyers continue to rampage through the city, toying with their prey and piling atrocity upon atrocity. With no time to mourn their fallen, the Paulklee Guild are forced to fend off their enemies' increasingly deadly attacks. The surviving members mobilize to fight back, and despite the terrible losses, hope is kept alive in the form of old vows honored and new ones made.
As Erica stalks through Ergastulum, leaving a trail of dead in her wake, Delico copes with the heartbreaking news that this most dangerous Hunter is actually his long-lost little sister. After a lifetime of separation, he's determined to rescue her--one way or another--but a fragile sibling bond may not be enough to counter the merciless force of destiny.
Prompted by a gruesome message, Marco heads out to rescue the kidnapped Constance. Drawn to a place he'd consigned to a dead past, he's plunged into a desperate fight against an enemy he once thought of as a brother. It's a time of betrayals and reversals, separations and farewells, as chaos threatens to tear the city of Ergastulum apart.
Years ago, Marco turned against the Hunters, submitting to the curse Constance set on him to live and atone for his sins. But the bonds of the past aren't so easily severed, and now Striker has tracked them down, still enraged by Marco's betrayal and hellbent on making him pay. Meanwhile, with their partnership in pieces, Worick and Nic struggle to cope with the shifting boundaries of loyalty, faith and duty.
Killing is all Spas has ever known, and he does it without doubt or remorse. Taught to believe he's ridding the world of monsters, he sees the extermination of the Twilights as a necessary step toward making Ergastulum a safer place. Until the day when he's forced to confront the horrifying truth that the real monster might be?him.
Ever since he was a young child, Spas has been indoctrinated to believe that eliminating all Twilights is the only way to guarantee the safety of the Normal population. But as he and the rest of the Hunters carry out their gruesome duty, the foundations of that belief begin to erode. Unable to reconcile the high-minded teachings of his past with the brutal realities of his present, Spas stands on the brink of a decision that will change his life-and the lives of those he loves-forever.
