Description: DEATHSTALKER!Imagine a world where the Allies lost the war to Nazi Germany and America has spentsixty years under duress by Axis powers. Now imagine an America newly freed fromoppression and trying to find its way'through crime and punishment. Welcome to the new America.Steeltown, USA. Another time, another place...Post-War profits have helped Steeltown grow into a thriving industrial metropolis.Unfortunately, the criminal element is growing along with it. Never before has evil ofsuch a depraved and monstrous nature terrorized the rainwashed streets of the city.Desperate times call for desperate measures, and now only the darkest and bloodiestof messiahs can prevent every man, woman and child from becoming hapless victims.Out of the shadows comes The Scorpion.Kurt Reinhardt is a powerful and debonair newspaper publisher by day'but by nighthe becomes a crime-busting vigilante feared by the criminal underground andrelentlessly pursued by the police. He is neither entirely good nor is he evil'and asThe Scorpion his agenda is his own. To fight the criminal element he utilizes theawesome .50 caliber Sting, a garrote of piano wire, and secrets best left buried foreverin the past. Aiding him in his ruthless quest for ?death for death and blood for blood'are hard-boiled Police Captain Dick Barracks, Spike Malone, a cynical young hooliganout of the river district known as ?Shit Town?, and Suzaku, his loyal Japanese retainer.At night in Steeltown the shadows are alive and The Scorpion crawls...THE STING OF THE SCORPIONA juvenile slave trading and prostitution ring has set up shop in Steeltown, an act ofperversity which lures The Scorpion out of hiding and puts him hot on the heels ofJimmy Marlowe, a notorious pimp, and his associate, the mystery man known only as?The Red Death'. Bodies are piling up, the obvious victims of an ax-wieldingpsychopath. Further complicating things is beautiful FBI agent Maggie James, whosegoals are twofold: to break the slavery ring and bring The Scorpion and his bloodyand destructive campaign to justice. But her investigation of Steeltown's darkestsentinel brings her to the doorstep of Kurt Reinhardt instead. Will Maggie's relentlessdeduction skills uncover Kurt's past and reveal his darkest secret, or will Maggieherself be the next victim of The Red Death?

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