Over the next few days, and in the absence of the Dark Knight, the Predator targets Squires, Brodin, and Gotham City Mayor Lieberman in a series of calculated assaults. Bedridden and encased in an orthopedic cast, he begins the slow process of recovery and to plan for another match with the Predator.
Batman retreats to Wayne Manor, where his butler Alfred Pennyworth treats his injuries. Clues lead Batman to the killer's hideout in an abandoned scrapyard, but in a deadly duel, he comes close to losing his life to the Predator, who escapes. In an attempt to defuse the conflict, Yeager's partner, "legitimate" but corrupt businessman Raymond Squires, arranges a meeting between the two crime lords during which Yeager is murdered by an invisible intruder. Batman's main goal initially is to avoid a battle on the streets of Gotham between the two mob bosses-the subsequent death of Brodin's losing boxer only making matters more complicated. Though suspicion falls on Brodin, the grisly yet unusual murder (consisting of spine and skull removal) suggests otherwise. When Yeager's victorious fighter is killed in his apartment shortly after the bout, Batman is called in to help investigate the crime. Each of the fighters is backed by two of the city's biggest gangsters, Alex Yeager and Leo Brodin. The first book opens with a boxing match in Gotham City.
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