The swollen city of Downlode lies sprawled across the heart of future Europe like a hit-and-run victim. Here, life is cheap and money can buy you anything - so if you want somebody whacked, you can't buy better bullet-monkeys than Finnigan SINISTER and Ramone DEXTER. The city's primo hitmen, they claim they only kill fellow members of the underworld, but when a gun-shark smells blood he's as dangerous as his namesake - you name it, they maim it. Now, they've taken apprentice gun-shark Kal Cutter under their wing...