Nature made Ash beautiful; Nurture made him a killer!
VICE CITY: NEW YORK IN THE 80s...
Nature made Ash Lynx beautiful; nurture made him a cold ruthless killer.
A runaway brought up as the adopted heir and sex toy of "Papa" Dino
Golzine, Ash, now at the rebellious age of seventeen, forsakes the
kingdom held out by the devil who raised him. But the hideous secret
that drove Ash's older brother mad in Vietnam has suddenly fallen into
Papa's insatiably ambitious hands--and it's exactly the wrong time for
Eiji Okamura, a pure-hearted young photographer from Japan, to make Ash
Lynx's acquaintance... Epic in scope, and one of the best-selling shojo
titles of all time in Japan, Akimi Yoshida put an electric shock into
the genre and gained a huge crossover audience through Banana
Fish's stripped-down, non-stop style.
After a failed attempt to kill Golzine, Ash is on the lam with his
friends: Shorter, a Chinese gang-member; Eiji, a Japanese reporter who
is developing feelings for Ash; Eiji's boss Ibé; and Max Lobo, a
journalist and Griffin's former army buddy. Ash heads for his childhood
home in Cape Cod and a tragic meeting with his real father. Meanwhile,
the group learns that Griffin knew his killer--one Abraham Dawson--back
in Vietnam. Could Dawson hold the secret of Banana Fish?