The Piper
L.A. NOIR at its best. Set mainly in Los Angeles, it follows a distinctive young assassin, trained from birth, as he takes on his most dangerous kill yet in a cat-and-mouse game where no one is who they appear to be.
In every way that counts Piper is an anti-hero.
A trained assassin he kills people for a living. It’s an art form to him, a unique skill he takes pride in. Piper doesn‘t think, act or live like anyone else. Solitary for the most part he is a true lone wolf in society. He is removed from it often physically and always emotionally. Piper is a ‘schooled since birth’ killing machine. Now in his twenties he’s in his prime.
Like all trained assassins who are expert in their field Piper does not personalize his targets so when Michael suggests Piper take his time over the next hit, a young opera singer, and study the tar-get intimately he is not prepared for the consequences. Nor is he prepared for her sexuality, her beauty and her astonishing talent. This phenomenon Anna La Fiori will prove to be a dangerous dis-traction to his usually cold as ice persona.
Forced to work again with his ‘sister’ Patch, a reckless accomplice with her own sinister methods, the Piper stumbles upon an inter-national snake venom ring, but there’s more at stake when he be-gins to track his latest target Anna and finds himself becoming emotionally triggered in ways that threaten his own safety. In the end, in a twisted set of events, he will have to rely on pure animal instinct, when trusted allies become vengeful enemies.
