Max Payne - The story so far Part 1

-"I didn't like the way the show started. They'd given me the best seat in the house – front row, center. Something ugly had been tattooed on the wall, a map of things to come."

Max Payne is a detective in the NYPD, working out of the Midtown North Precinct near Hell's Kitchen. Max is invited to join the DEA by his good friend Alex Balder, but our gun-toting gurner wants to spend more time with his wife, Michelle, and their infant daughter.

One day Max comes home to find that his house has been burgled, the walls of his home daubed with sinister graffiti. Max desperately tries to rescue his wife and child, but both die at the hands of psychotic drug addicts. Devastated, he blows away the three junkies. It's subsequently discovered that the addicts were high on a new designer drug called "Valkyr" - "V".

After burying his family, Max accepts Alex's offer and joins him at the DEA.
-"That was three years ago. Everything ripped apart in a New York minute."

-"I came in from the cold and the dark. Outside the city was a cruel monsters."

After three years of careful investigation, Max and Alex are close to getting a break in the Valkyr case. the pair are tipped off that the key to the drug ring may lie with Jack Lupino - a deranged mobster obsessed with Norse mythology.

Max goes undercover and manages to infiltrate the notorious Punchinello crime family. Aside from Alex, the only person who knows about this assignment is another DEA agent by the name of B.B.

Two months later, B.B. arranges for Max to meet with Alex at a New York subway station. As the Pair convene, Alex is killed by an unseen gunman.
Max is framed for the murder and is forced to go on the run; the NYPD is hot on his trail, led by deputy chief Jim Bravura.

Despite this setback, Max continues on his personal quest to crack the drugs ring, searching the city for Jack Lupino. One of Lupino's associates, a snivelling wretch called Vinnie Gognitti, reveals that Lupino can be found at his night club,