Blade Runner Tokyo Nexus #4

Book excerpt: Early in the 21 Century, the Tyrell Corporation advanced Robot evolution into the nexus phase – a being virtually identical to a human – known as a Replicant. Used as slave labor Off-world, escaped Replicants on Earth were hunted by Blade Runner Units, tasked with killing them on sight. The rumors of bootleg Replicants appearing in the Far East has prompted the Tyrell Corp to investigate, determined to protect its monopoly on synthetic humans. Corporate agents and Blade Runners have been deployed to aggressively eliminate any threat from these industrial pirates. In Tokyo, ex-Marine Mead and Replicant Combat Model Stix work as off-the-book P.I.s while searching for the traitor who betrayed them during an unsanctioned mission to Kalanthia. A spree of brutal killings, apparently by a rogue Replicant, has the city on edge, and Stix a suspect. A young woman named Sayo hired Mead and Stix to find Miyuki, her missing partner. LAPD Blade Runner, Rumika, arrived in Tokyo to investigate the brutal killings of the rogue Replicant and interviewed Mead. Sayo was assassinated and died in Mead’s arms, naming Stix as her killer. Rumiko received orders from Tyrell Corp to either extricate or neutralize two Tyrell scientists from Cheshire. Mead tracked Stix down and tried to convince him to help her find the real killer of Sayo, but Stix fled, believing it to be a trap. So Mead and Rumiko then followed a lead to a deserted theme park and were followed by Sayo’s sister, Alura. There they found the dead body of a Stix clone and were attacked by a gang of Yakuza soldiers…