Nature made Ash beautiful; Nurture made him a killer!VICE CITY: NEW YORK IN THE 80s... Nature made Ash Lynx beautiful; nurture made him a cold ruthless killer. 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.

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... 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. Eiji Okamura, a young photographer from Japan, has made Ash's acquaintance; just in time to fall with him into this bloody whirlpool.

Now the Chinese Lee syndicate has delivered Ash, Max Lobo, Ibe and Dr. Alexis Dawson to Papa Dino. Banana Fish has been used to brainwash Shorter Wong and manipulate him into mutilating Eiji right before Ash's very eyes!