The Black Crane

<p>CIA stringer Richard Lancaster has been tasked to search out drugs for the new MK-Meta Drug Program a black ops program designed to use psychotropic drugs to disrupt international crime organizations in the U.S. On a routine trip to the Brazilian rainforest Lancaster discovers a new even stronger and more dangerous variant of the potent <em>borrachero</em> tree the source of what the Brazilians call <em>burundanga</em><em> </em>a scopolamine-like psychotropic powder.</p><p>The MK-Meta team decides to force a Yakuza tattoo artist Takumi Endo and his beautiful artist daughter Michi to dose the youngest son of a Yakuza Oyabun (Godfather) in order to steal a computer containing the accounting records of a rival gang. The attempt to steal the computer fails resulting in the deaths of numerous innocent civilians what the newspapers call <em>The Massacre In Little Tokyo</em>.</p><p>In order to cover up the disastrous plan Lancaster kills Michi’s father and any other witnesses associated with the failed scheme. Upon learning of her father’s death Michi is transformed from a peace loving traditional Japanese daughter into a revenge-seeking vigilante in the form of a Japanese style Bosozoku dubbed The Black Crane. The Black Crane [Kurodzuru] Bosozoku does not stop until all the people responsible for her father’s death have been punished.</p>