This is quite possibly the best Shadowrun novel I've read in my life - a position I once firmly gave to Findley's 2XS. Hardboiled, action, a pretty awesome detective story, and great character design, never mind the writing quality (which is superb). And it works, with deep character development, a very well crafted Mary Sue motif that spins around itself to reveal humanity at its flawed core. I'm thoroughly enjoying the past year, even if it's not actually the right year.Īnyways, this is the veritable cherry on top - hardboiled detective fiction (in an urban near-future fantasy world), *far* more Marlowe than Dresden or even Nigel Findley's (RIP) Dirk Montgomery. To start with, Catalyst have collected and published a truly very high quality set of novels for the new Shadowrun line - fantastic stuff, guys! Keep at it! Better late than never. This was common in many tabletop RPG houses back in the late 80s and 90s - more books, rather than less books with a higher quality. There are some truly fantastic books, but most are actually quite middling at best, with a focus on quantity. I'll explain - any experienced Shadowrun fan will tell you that, by and large, most Shadowrun fiction of old isn't that great. It’s a good thin he’s got friends-in high and low places… To unlock the data and get a little justice, he’ll face the worst the Sprawl has to offer, wading through blood, darkness, and a murderous web of lies. He’s got a dead mentor, a hermetic group in need, and a mysterious file that might have been worth killing for. In the darkness of the Seattle Sprawl, what’s one more murder? A former combat mage, now as burnt out as his neighborhood, he does what he can to police the worst excesses of the crime-riddled city he loves. Walking the line between shadows and the desperate light, semi-legit like only a Puyallup brat and former cop can be, he insists Puyallup has a heart and a soul, that it’s a place of life, magic, and starving hope. They call it a Barrens, an armpit, a cesspool. Most folks see Puyallup as the worst Seattle’s got to offer a tangled mess of metahumanity and greet, poverty and ghettoes, vice and corruption, where the crime is more organized than the government.
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