Corruption must be spotted
SPECIAL CROSSOVER ISSUE For mature readers
PIMENOV/MOONEY/ PANTOULAS
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CORRUPTION IS ROTTING THE CIT Y OF KYIV. BUT THERE ARE THOSE TRYING TO STOP THE ROT FROM SPREADING. DETECTIVE ALEXANDER IVANENKO WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BIGGEST INVESTIGATION OF HIS CAREER WHEN HE DECIDED TO GO UNDERCOVER . HIS TASK, DELIVER A CASE OF MONEY TO THE PRIME SUSPECT. A CASE LINED WITH DYE PACKS THAT WOULD MARK THE BILLS AND ALL THOSE WHO TOUCHED THEM. HOWEVER , SOMETHING WENT WRONG. DETECTIVE IVANENKO WAS FOUND COMATOSE AND THE CASE, ALONG WITH THE MONEY, GONE. IN THE SIX MONTHS HE HAS BEEN IN A COMA, STRANGE THINGS HAVE BEEN HAPPENING AROUND THE CIT Y, SOMETHING THAT COULD TURN THE TIDES IN THE FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION. BUT IVANENKO IS NOT THE ONLY ONE WITH A STAKE IN THIS FIGHT. A FEW OF THE VIGILANTES FROM THE CIT Y OF UPTOWN, LED BY THE ENIGMATIC ZERO TOLERANCE DECIDE TO STEP IN TO LEND A HAND TO THEIR FELLOW FIGHTER OF THE CORRUPT. AFTER ALL, FIND THE ENEMY OF YOUR ENEMY AND SURELY YOU WILL FIND A FRIEND. THE ENEMY? CORRUPTION. A FACE IN THE CROWD, SEEN AND THEN FORGOTTEN. A MAN WHO WAS ONCE PROUD TO SERVE THE SYSTEM HE BELIEVED WAS RIGHT AND JUST. THAT IS UNTIL HE REMOVED ITS MASK TO EXPOSE THE HORROR BENEATH. NO ONE KNOWS WHO HE TRULY IS; HIS RECORDS HAVE LONG SINCE BEEN DESTROYED BY HIS ONCE EMPLOYERS. NOW HE LEADS THE GROUP AGAINST THE SYSTEM HE SERVED. FAIR BUT FIRM IN HIS BELIEFS, HE IS CALM AND READY FOR THE OPINIONS OF HIS FELLOW TEAM MATES.
ZERO TOLERANCE THE TRUTH CAN BE HARD, BUT AS AN INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST, IT IS HIS JOB TO BRING IT TO THE PUBLIC EYE. WHEN HE STUMBLES ON A BIG CORRUPTION SCANDAL, HIS BOSSES TELL HIM TO BURY IT. HIS REFUSAL ULTIMATELY RUINS HIM WHEN THE POWERS THAT BE TRY TO BURY HIM INSTEAD. STANDING ON THE RUINS OF HIS FLEDGLING CAREER HE DECIDES TO START HIS OWN PAPER WHERE THE TRUTH IS NOT CHAINED TO THE WALLETS OF THE RICH.
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ONCE A MAN OF HUMBLE CONVICTIONS, AN ABCENCE OF JUSTICE HAS LEFT A BITTER TASTE IN HIS MOUTH EVERMORE. BROKEN BY THE TRAGIC LOSS OF HIS FAMILY AND THE MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE THAT FOLLOWED HE CONSIDERS HIMSELF A MAN WITH NOTHING TO LOSE. DESPITE BEING PART OF THE GROUP, WHEN HE DECIDES ON A COURSE OF ACTION IT IS NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE TO STOP HIM.
LYNCHMAN ALEXANDER WAS BORN AND RAISED IN UKRAINE. HIS MORALE, VALUES AND STAMINA WERE BROUGHT UP BY HIS FATHER AND MOTHER TO CARVE A BETTER MAN OUT OF HIM. HE HAS DEALT ENOUGH WITH CORRUPTION AS AN ORDINARY MAN, TO ACTUALLY DEDICATE HIS LIFE TO FIGHT WITH IT AS A DETECTIVE OF ANTICORRUPTION STATE BUREAU.
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