Welcome to the world of the near future, where corporations rule and hired guns known as Independents do their bidding. Octi Corporation, one of the largest companies left in this desolate world, contracts Nox, one of the last of the Mechanics, to retrieve some stolen merchandise. Too bad for them they left out a few details. Mechanic is the first book in the suspenseful CORROSIVE KNIGHTS series and features the introduction of Nox.