What begins as a search for a rebellious youth leads Madison out into the desert Wastes where he encounters a gang of marauders looking for an easy mark and secretive Federal agents tasked with detaining political activists. But this time, he's fighting against ghosts from his past, and the stakes have never been higher. When an old friend from Little Tokyo asks for help locating his missing nephew, detective Charlie Madison takes the case. While underworld powers vie for territorial domination and the gifted ones struggle to survive, he'll have to do what he does best: Put the pieces together and solve the mystery.

Problem is, Madison has no memory of ever meeting her.Ĭharlie Madison's history has returned to haunt him. X, who created the world's first suprahumans. Years ago, while stationed on the Eastern Front, he supposedly crossed paths with the enigmatic Dr. But that doesn't keep him from trying to help a gifted young woman who shows up on his doorstep late one night claiming she's being hunted.Īnd it doesn't stop federal agents from rounding up Madison and probing his repressed memories from the war. With a fresh bounty on his head courtesy of the Russian bratva, it's in Madison's best interest to stay under the radar. At the same time, a dangerous yakuza clan has singled out private eye Charlie Madison, determined to squeeze him for information about superpowered individuals - that no one should know exist. What starts out as a vicious Alamo-style battle soon evolves. The last thing he expects to find: half a dozen Russian gunmen with a score to settle. When he stops by the 37th precinct late one night to check on his old friend Sergeant Douglass, the place is as quiet as a morgue. An assassin is targeting the gifted ones in Little Tokyo for extermination. Charlie Madison has seen more than his share of war.

Chimera Effect by Milo James Fowler