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Description:
Mage
His name is actually Michelagelo Magistrale, but that's too long a
moniker for a tough Brooklyn guy. Like his namesake, he;s an artist--a
photographer. He's been traveling a lot, trying to find where he fits
in, when he makes an acquantance in a Greyhound bus terminal that
changes his life.
Magic
Her name's Amanda, and the magic Mage feels is nothing more than
heat that any beautiful young woman could generate. But when she
gives Mage the key to her apartment in exchange for ticket money,
he gets more than he bargained for. The key, attached to a beautiful
braided lanyard, turns out to be real magic. And, unfortunately
trouble comes along with it.
Monsters
First come the kind of monsters Mage can understand: big, beefy
guys with hard firsts. Then a bakemono--nothing but a head
and a pair of hands--tries to kill him.
It turns out that the yakuza--the Jananese mob--had their hooks
in Amanda, and now they're after Mage. Lucky for him he meets Charlie
Takumo, a guy who knows something about the yakuza and about weird
Japanese creatures and sorcery that are supposed to be nothing but
myth but turn out to be horribly real.
Money
Now Amanda is dead, and Mage and Charlie are in big trouble. Whatever
Amanda was mixed up in, there's a lot of money at stake: Takemanga,
an L.A. yakuza overlord who wields money and magic with equal and
deadly skill, is sending hit men after them. Lots of them. Sooner
or later, their luck is going to run out, unless somehow they can
make the strange key do more than open apartment doors for them.
Charlie is helping Mage learn the magic, but they are both busy
staying alive. Back in Brooklyn, Mage learned the art of arrow cutting,
how to fend off danger in whatever form it might take. His early
training is now getting its most severe test. Maybe he shoulda stayed
in Brooklyn.
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