Ciaran O'Mahoney has a gift. Or perhaps a curse. In the city of Darke Prospect, his existence is as miserable as that of the bulk of the population. The polluted, industrialised streets are a hive of violence and poverty, cruelly inflicted on the populace by the ruthless Darke Conglomerate. Its head, Charles Darke, is not used to being a victim of the misery that he sows. But now, his favoured enforcer has been murdered, and O'Mahoney has been given...