Il Numero Zero

Professor Hecht, who had disappeared from Earth for two months after kidnapping the little genius Gene Smith from the Hawking Institute, is found dead on the Calliope orbiting station. It is precisely the research institute that instructs the Alfa Agency to find the boy, known as "Number Zero", and it is Nathan Never who sets out on Gene's trail, intending to find him before the Ghost terrorists do... The reminiscent Eric Kleeman (endowed with a brain capable of storing data like a computer), having escaped Nathan Never's hunt, brings with him a stolen program that allows androids to be freed from the laws of robotics by making them murderers. After killing his "receiver", Kleeman delivers the program to the evil Aristotle Skotos. The android C-09, witness to the assassination, and Nathan Never track down Kleeman, who is on a ship full of modified androids. But waiting for him, Nathan will find Kal Skotos, son of Aristotle, with his deadly monomolecular cable... Nathan Never comes into possession of the only remaining copy of the film "2001: A Space Odyssey": the disclosure of the film would reveal the scam hatched by Marcus Hackman, founder of the sect of worshipers of the Black Monolith. Ash and Leonid, criminals in the service of Hackman, who kidnap Penelope, go on the trail of the film. Peabody, nephew of Nathan's neighbors, to force Agent Alfa to give them the film. But even the mutates, hired by the collector Al Castle, want to recover the film... Nathan Never is tasked by the government with recovering deadly bacteria stolen by Athos Than, a criminal who governs a small independent state, Dragon Island. Than intends to create, thanks to bacteria, a race of supermen subservient to his will. Nathan is sent to the island under the identity of Robert Clouse, a martial arts champion, enrolled in the jeet-kune-doo tournament that takes place there every two years...