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The Last Supper of the Poisoned King

La última cena del rey envenenado

A Spanish culinary mercenary working Tokyo's criminal underworld receives an impossible contract: hunt a genetically resurrected thylacine in a radioactive exclusion zone to prepare a dying Yakuza boss's final meal. The deeper he ventures into the wasteland, the more he questions what—and who—he's really hunting.

El neón se derramaba como tinta fluorescente sobre los callejones de Kabukichō cuando Álvaro recibió la llamada. No era una llamada cualquiera: tres tonos cortos, silencio, un cuarto tono largo. El protocolo de Nakamura.

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