- A detective has to journey into the dark heart of his modern metropolis to investigate a routine murder, but finds the secret truth behind an ancient myth.
- Party girl Zoë Verne is a regular at Club Dis, the city's hottest sub-culture super-club. But late one evening she leaves the club distraught and upset, and is set upon by four dark figures. All she hears is a snarl... she's dead before she can scream.
It seems that Detective Alex Taylor has it all, but the truth is he's losing it fast. After a string of failures his career is on a downward spiral; his fiancée is all but a stranger to him; and now he's handling the death of Zoë Verne seemingly killed by a wild animal... but the closer he looks, the more the ground seems to fall from beneath his feet.
As Alex investigates the girl's free-spirited lifestyle he finds himself faced with a dark, alternative world hidden away in the underbelly of his modern metropolis. Central to this world is Club Dis, and its members.
The forensic evidence shows that Zoë was addicted to a drug derived from a fungus called Ergot. During the Dark Ages, whole villages were driven mad by eating infected wheat, leading the superstitious peasants to believe they were possessed by the spirits of wild animals, and giving rise to the myth of the Werewolf.
Alex begins to suspect that Zoë's death is related to this new drug, and that the owner of Club Dis is somehow involved, preying on the alternative sensibilities of the club's clientele to lure them into addiction, prostitution and worse and now killing a customer who steps out of line.
Of course the management and staff of Club Dis tell Alex nothing; but one of the club's regulars, Wolfgang, takes Alex under his wing, and guides him through the dark, secret places that Zoë used to go, showing him a world he never knew existed: the clubs, the parties, the after-hours retreats.
At first Alex is appalled by this alternative lifestyle of decadence and free expression; and the more time he spends in the club the more he feels he's being investigated, threatened, seduced & manipulated by the gang of women who seem to control the club owner's empire for him. But the more Alex experiences with Wolfgang, the more he finds himself being drawn in to this new life, as his old world continues to crumble.
But then more deaths start to occur, implicating the owner's female lieutenants, and clearly linked to the lycanthropy drug that's infiltrating Wolfgang's world and Alex begins to realise that he and Wolfgang are in more danger than he had imagined.
Alex returns to Club Dis in a desperate attempt to bring the owner & his girls to justice and save the ones he loves, but soon finds himself faced with an even greater dilemma than he had ever feared...
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