num_pages: 200
description: New York City 1985. A dying man leaves bisexual gang leader Ash Lynx a strange drug the key to something called Banana Fish. The mysterious potion will lead Ash to a disturbed Vietnam vet who remembers a massacre  and into brutal battle with the mafia over control of the drug.Vice City: New York in the 80s... Nature made Ash Lynx beautiful; nurture made him a cold ruthless killer. A child runaway brought up as the adopted heir hatchet man and sex toy of Papa Dino Golzine the East Coast's Corsican crime lord Ash is now at the rebellious age of seventeen  forsaking the kingdom of power and riches held out by the devil who raised him preferring a code he can live with among a small but loyal gang of street thugs. But his Papa can't simply let him go  not when the hideous secret that drove Ash's older brother mad in Vietnam has suddenly fallen into his insatiably ambitious hands.It's exactly the wrong time for Eiji Okamura a pure-hearted young photographer from Japan to arrive in NYC and make Ash Lynx's acquaintance... and fall with him into the bloody whirlpool of pride greed lust and wrath unleashed by the enigma code-named Banana Fish...
language: English
title: Banana Fish, Vol. 1
publisher: VIZ Media LLC