Mardock Scramble

why me? it was to be the last thought a young prostitute, rune balot, would ever have…as a human anyway. taken in by a devious gambler named shell, she became a slave to his cruel desires and would have been killed by his hand if not for a private investigator and his self-aware universal tool, œufcoque. now a cyborg, balot has not only physical powers, but the ability to disrupt social environments. she chases after shell, his partner-in-crime boiled, and faces down a variety of insane villains in this pulse-pounding cyberpunk noir adventure.