A hard-boiled sci-fi tale set in L.A. that shook the nation.
"We have used force to mold the world into the 'right shape.' That is the American soul!"
Hadrian, an FBI agent tracking a series of gruesome crimes, arrives in Los Angeles on the West Coast after a journey that took her across the entire country.
Determined to expose an "alien conspiracy," and partnered with a detective who is literally a walking skeleton, she moves from reeking back alleys to neon-drenched boulevards.
What does she witness as she traverses this devastated world?
This is not a story of invasion; it is the myth of America itself.
A chronicle of glory and violence, penned by the author of the *Shito Chofu* and *Musashino* series, infused with dry humor, irony, and homage to 1980s Hollywood sci-fi.