In the rain-lashed, neon-drenched ruins of post-apocalyptic Hong Kong, Kimoni is the eyes of the powerful XIAN Corporation—a living security system in a city where human potential is a traded commodity. But when a brutal assault shatters his body and fractures his mind, the one man who sees everything is left blind.
Grafted with a hypersensitive robotic arm and haunted by ghosts of a past he cannot grasp, Kimoni is dragged back from exile. His corporate masters demand he hunt for the truth. The city’s chief of Tai Kwun needs him to trace a lethal, weaponised drug tearing through the streets. Both trails converge on one place: the lawless, neon-soaked underbelly of Proxima, the Lantern District.
Here, in a sanctuary of exiles and convicts where hope is a currency and despair is a product, Kimoni’s only ally is a sharp-witted addict, her neck marked with the Insig of a conviction. Together, they descend into a labyrinth of political corruption, corporate espionage, and twisted transhuman science.
But as fragments of the truth coalesce into a terrifying whole, Kimoni uncovers a conspiracy that could burn the city to the ground. To expose it, he must confront the most terrifying question of all: in a world built on lies, is the truth worth the price of remembering?
