From rising star Tetsuya Tsutsui comes a three-volume horror-thriller which draws the reader into a tangled web of intrigue and lies, as two detectives trying to solve a string of mysterious deaths come face to face with a much larger conspiracy that threatens a manmade global pandemic. What do two Japanese detectives, a naked man on a city street, and a roundworm from Botswana all have in common? In Manhole, Ken Mizoguchi and Nao Inoue are a pair of investigators asking themselves this very question as they string together clues to solve a string of bloody and mysterious murders. But as the pieces come together, they begin to uncover the threat of a deadly biological agent which poses a threat of epidemic proportions. The criminal responsible for the filariasis epidemic is finally unmasked. Behind this Machiavellian plan is a man wounded and full of resentment towards a society incapable of managing its monsters and unwilling to police the seeds of criminal impulses, even when their s
