Death Row Inmate Ian Peyton has lost everything -- His humanity, his freedom, and shortly, his life.Years of "voluntary" medical experimentation have proven a far worse punishment than the fate that awaits him in the execution chamber. These experiments have made him a hulking monster... but left him with the mind of an angry child.When Peyton learns that he has a single living relative -- his daughter Annika -- he gains something he has never possessed before: hope. But hope is a dangerous thing in the hands of a man with superhuman strength and nothing else to lose.After a daring escape, Ian and Annika find themselves on the run, the entire twisted city of Hongkongtown against them. When the government calls in its most ruthless agent to hunt them down, Peyton's brief moment of hope is threatened. Once more, death seems the only likely outcome, but now Peyton's daughter may die with him.But this is Hongkongtown, where friends can be found in the unlikeliest of places, and where good and evil sometimes wear the same uniform. Someone else is looking for the Peyton family. Someone with power and resources. Someone who might be able to offer them help... if they live long enough to accept it.