"The Last Samurai meets Blade Runner. In a time when anyone can be a technopath, he who controls data controls it all. Only one person can save us..."

After a year of mourning her father’s assassination in isolation, Áine Nishimura, a cybernetically enhanced double-amputee, receives an anonymous message that links his death to the Purge, a devastating web-based super-virus thought to have been orchestrated thirty years before by a dangerous group of cyber-criminals known as the Circle. 

Immediately handing in her resignation with Interpol, she leaves London and returns to her native Tokyo to clear her father’s name. But she quickly becomes entangled with the Yakuza, the most feared organised crime syndicate on the planet and, face to face with the top boss himself, she dares to challenge what she believes is a web of deceit and conspiracy about her father. 

What she hears next means she has a shocking choice to make: to allow humanity to be permanently digitally enslaved, or sacrifice thousands of innocent people as a message to an even greater power than the Yakuza. 

With seconds to decide, will she honour her father’s wishes, or is the decision just too big for her to make? 

i Symbiote is an origin story that can be read independently of the series.