This is a short story and I might say, quite short, but still miles better than the movie with Keanu Reaves. I have no idea why would the director of the movie ignore the grit and bile of the actual story and instead go for cheap tropes like making Lo Teks some kind of fighters against oppression when in the story they are just another criminal gang in Nightcity.
The story starts when Johnny cannot get the information unloaded from the wet implant in his brain because the dealer that usually uses him for shuttling information realizes that it belongs to the Yakuza and he is more than happy to let Johnny take the fall instead of him as the Yakuza have another wat-grown ninja on the trail.
Johnny goes to the dealer to straighten things out, but the dealer and his bodyguard use nerve arrester which freezes Johnny until Molly Millions come along and kills the former two. The Yakuza ninja is still on the trail so Molly takes Johnny to Nightcity where Dog Lo Teks, basically humans with dog implanted fangs and other parts, have their own society, part of which is fights in an arena of net of cables sprung out between tops of buildings.
The Yakuza ninja finds them here and Molly fights him in the arena, and although the ninja is maximum-enhanced for reflexes, strength and endurance, Molly manages to kill him, and he dies with an expression of surprise and disbelief on his face. Johnny stays with the Lo Teks and becomes one of them, his new bulldog fangs grafting just nicely in his jaw.
So much better than the movie.
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