ILIAM

In the neon-drenched, rain-slicked hellscape of Silverton City, survival is a business and loyalty is a myth. Julian Ash, a brutally efficient and notoriously unstable mercenary known as the "cyberpunk psycho," lives for one thing only: a meticulously planned, decade-old vendetta against the corporate powers that destroyed his family. His plans go off the rails when he pulls a half-dead man from a burning building. The man is Silas Wilde, his charismatic and cunning arch-nemesis, the one rival who has matched him blow for blow and scar for scar for the past five years. Five years ago, a 13-year-old Silas Wilde was the rich kid Julian Ash risked his life to save. Three months later, the kid was gone, leaving only a permanent, ring-shaped bite mark on Julian Ash’s finger. At 18, he returned, not with gratitude, but with a smug smile and a contract on Julian Ash’s life. Their bloody, obsessive dance of mutual destruction began.