Sunday Trade: Monster

Monster by Naoki Urasawa

Dr. Kenzo Tenma is a brilliant surgeon and a man with a bright future. Since moving from Japan to Germany he's on a fast-track for promotions at his hospital and he's engaged to the beautiful daughter of the hospital director. But then one night to children are brought in. A catatonic girl and her twin brother, who is comatose with a bullet in his head. At the same time the mayor is brought in with a blocked artery. Against the director's orders Tenma operates on the boy. Thanks to Tenma's elite skills the boy lives. But the mayor dies...

Now Tenma's career is stalled out and his fiance dumps him for the new protege of her father. Tenma uses this to rededicate himself to patient care and tries to be content with his current job standing. But soon the director and several others are murdered at the same time the twin children go missing. As Tenma searches for his missing patients he finds himself under suspicion from an Inspector Lunge of the BKA for the murders...

Living legend Naoki Urasawa here begins a truly epic story on the nature of evil...