192 pages; softcover, B&W, digest.

A runaway brought up as the adopted heir and sex toy of crime lord "Papa" Dino Golzine, Ash has forsaken the kingdom held out by the devil who raised him for his own small but loyal gang of street thugs. But his "Papa" can't simply let him go — not when the hideous secret that drove Ash's older brother mad in Vietnam has suddenly fallen into his insatiably ambitious hands. Ash has only one hand of cards, a loyal posse of street thugs, an investigative reporter, and a sympathetic cop.