A fast-paced crime thriller set in modern day Tokyo. Luther Haviland is a member of the Japanese National Police Agency's foreigner crime squad. On a perfect spring afternoon a pair of suicide bombers are unleashed on Tokyo and Osaka. In the bloody aftermath lie clues that foretell destruction on an apocalyptic scale. Luther searches for the mastermind of the attack before further attacks are launched, bringing him into contact with the world of Tokyo's English teachers Meanwhile, the Forest God seeks to cleanse his environment of its most noxious pollutant: mankind.