A power she can't explain...an assignment she didn't want. With the world locked in an escalating battle against terrorism and constant social and economic unrest, the deadliest threat will be fought by a hero who cannot die! Out of the chaos emerges Jane Vasco, aka Painkiller Jane. Jane Vasco is a tough, yet sexy DEA agent recruited by a covert government unit to hunt superhuman neurological aberrations known as "Neuros". But during the course of her first investigation, Jane discovers that she too possesses formidable powers, she cannot be killed. Operating from a secure abandoned subway platform, Jane and her team battle the bullet-ridden world of the very near future where nothing may be what it seems and pain is always a bitch.