Big Pharma has bottled the fountain of youth. But synthetic innocence comes at a steep cost…
London. Nick Winters values truth above all. Fired five years ago for publishing an embarrassing piece against orders, the grizzled reporter finds himself on the edge of fifty and struggling to shine a spotlight on corruption. So when the editor who sacked him calls out of the blue with an exposé assignment, he seizes the opportunity to probe a lethal secret…
Exploring claims that a man committed murder under the influence of a drug the investigative journalist has experimented with himself, he digs into the company that holds the patent. But with the pill’s popular ability to temporarily regress older adults to their psychological youth, Nick quickly runs afoul of corporate assassins and deadly gangsters.
Will this determined writer’s quest for the real story make him a fatal headline?
They see each other in their dreams. Can two strangers work together to stop a callous killer?
Tokyo. Sakura Tanara struggles constantly to find peace. Suffering from an undiagnosed sleeping condition all her life, she moves from a small rural village to the city to improve her destiny. But when she stumbles upon a ruthless Yakuza lieutenant murdering his boss, the terrified nightclub hostess barely escapes the assassin’s clutches…
Chicago. Mike Lewis wonders if his visions are just part of his illness. But when his nightmare shows a young Japanese woman in danger from a vicious gang member, he’s convinced she’s real and attempts contact out of the blue. And unable to get her out of his mind, the desperate man vows to move heaven and earth to be by her side.
With her chances of survival rapidly diminishing, Sakura agrees to meet the mysterious American who sent the cryptic message. And as Mike frantically jumps on a plane, he fears he’ll arrive too late to save the girl.
Can Sakura and Mike puzzle out their bizarre connection before she’s cut down by a savage criminal?