Nature made Ash Lynx beautiful; nurture made him a cold ruthless killer.
While the two sides clash in an all-out melee in New York\'s garbage-strewn back alleys and abandoned buildings, Yau-Si is still obsessed with the notion of killing Eiji....
To fight back, Ash has formed alliances with local Chinese and African American gangs.
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.
Ash and his crew are faced with a new deadly enemy, as Golzine has hired ex-member of the French Foreign Legion Colonel Foxx and his elite cadre to destroy them.
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...
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.
Nature made Ash Lynx beautiful; nurture made him a cold ruthless killer