HENSHIN: (Metamorphosis)

Samuru Hashimoto’s seventh birthday should be a joyful occasion. Instead, his parents are murdered by five men who break into their modest home in Tacoma, WA, as the young boy hides under the kitchen table. He is struck mute by the trauma. The boy finds a new home in Tokyo with his uncle, Jiro Asano, an influential Aikido master and director of the Cabinet Research Chamber (postwar Japan’s CIA). Asano recognizes the potential of a skillful assassin, renames his nephew Ryuujin (Dragon), and trains him expressly for that job. Years later, dressed in the bloody rags he has pieced together from his parent's clothes, Ryuujin transforms his persona into the fearsome killer the news media dubs Raggedy Man.His service to Asano brings him into conflict with foes all around the globe, including the American Mafia and the Japanese Yakuza. But he remains obsessed with the two-decade mystery of who killed his parents and why.Closing in on the truth at last, he finds the man who holds the shocking answers, and he exacts a terrible revenge. Read more