Blade Runner 2019 #8

Book excerpt: Ash was rescued from the wreck of the platform by a British Blade Runner called Hythe, who had reinstated Ash to the rank of Blade Runner and had her cybernetic back-braced repaired and recharged. Together the two Blade Runners tracked the escaped Replicants to the Off-World way-station of Ramanuja, a nexus point of a hundred trade routes. Ash and Hyde were then attacked by Pellam, leader of the rebel group who had stayed behind to kill anyone who followed them. Following a furious gun battle that saw the Replicant die, Hythe revealed to Ash that she was not working for the London Blade Runner division, but rather for a private individual who was revealed to be Isobel Selwyn. Ash had last seen Isobel mortally wounded on Earth when she had pleaded with Ash to take her daughter, Cleo, away from her father, Alexander Selwyn, and escape off world…