A cool story, told well, but hard to follow. The story is terse, driven by art more than words, and the art is rich in noiresque chiaroscuro. The problem lies mostly in the compressed timeframes - 100 pages that flow as quickly as manga leaves you unfulfilled - and the difficulty in telling individuals apart, which made the story far more confusing than it had to be. The exhaustive footnotes in the back prove that the book could have been so much more with a little extra breathing room.