She looked like a character from a video game. One of those improbably busty, impossibly well-armed superchicks who could do acrobatics and hit the kill zone even while firing guns from both hands during a cartwheel. "You look fucking ridiculous," she told herself.

It's cloaked in cultural mumbo jumbo, but I assure you that it is very hard science.

He's a ghost, not a carnival magician.-Benny Imura

Benny Imura couldn't hold a job, so he took to killing.It was the family business. He barely liked his family-and by family he meant his older brother, Tom-and he definitely didn't like the idea of "business". Or work. The only part of the deal that sounded like it might be fun was the actual killing.