Karnak by Warren Ellis

The Flaw in All Things

A severe philosopher-warrior who can perceive the flaw in all things is pulled from ascetic isolation by a covert agency to recover a newly transformed Inhuman abductee, cutting through criminals and ideologues with surgical precision while deconstructing their beliefs. As the rescue spirals into clashes with traffickers and zealots drawn to the boy’s potential, his pitiless logic and devastating martial insight test the boundaries of his gift and the costs of absolute certainty, turning a simple retrieval into an austere meditation on power, faith, and the cracks that run through reality itself.