It's surprisingly great news when Pain learns that a former nemesis has met an untimely end, and he is not a suspect in her death. The world may be a messed up place but for today life is good right? That is until he learns said nemesis' ally blames him anyway, and she might be the only thing in this world he is afraid of. Agony gets to say “I told you so.” After all, this is why they can't have nice things. New alliances and of course new betrayals are at hand as the tectonics of the black ops world shifts and rumbles. Who is working for who, who is hunting who, and will have the decency to simply shut up and die? Our favorite misfits must avoid being strangled and stabbed (and run over, and shot, and blown up, and, well, you get the point) in this latest cloak and dagger escapade. Can the pugnacious pair emerge from the intrigue in one piece?