The Wraith

"He doesn't speak. He doesn't hesitate. He doesn't miss."

Frank Kane seeks peace in silence and solitude. The war was supposed to be over.

A key genetic researchers vanishes overnight. Her breakthrough could grant humanity centuries of life. Instead someone has turned healing into horror. The weapon ages victims to death in hours. Murder disguised as time.

World leaders debate the ethics of longevity research. Who deserves to live forever? What happens when the poor die of old age while the rich live for centuries?

Frank wants no part of it. His damaged throat barely speaks. His scarred hands crave stillness now. Not violence.

But innocents die while legal systems fail. Frank faces the choice that haunts every reluctant warrior: remain safely isolated or return to the darkness that defines him.

He's tired of killing. Tired of being the weapon others point at problems. The tool they use then discard. Frank fought to escape what he was. What he might become again.

The mission will cost him. Not just blood this time. Something deeper. The peace he's fought to find. The man he's struggled to build from the killer he's always been.

Frank Kane stands at the crossroads between redemption and duty. Between the silence he craves and the violence that still calls his name.

Some men are born for war. Others are broken into it. Frank was forged by it, shaped like steel in fire, tempered until only the weapon remained.

The cost of saving others may be losing himself.