Managed by his mother, a legendary Urban Brawl player until her forced retirement, and fitted with top-line cyberware that makes him better than human, Redlock is on the fast-track to super-stardom-until it all comes crashing down around him.Īfter sabotage takes him out of the major leagues, Redlock finds himself on the streets for real, alone for the first time ever. Redlock is a rising star in the brutal sport of Urban Combat, where teams of armed combatants try to score points against their opponents while shooting it out amid Seattle’s decaying urban landscape. To settle the score, he’ll have to face off against the deadliest assassin ever to stalk the Seattle streets-and use every bit of skill, guile, and luck he has to survive… Last but certainly not least, he’s got to broker a deal between the biggest elven street gang in Seattle and a vicious Triad gang-and not get himself killed in the bargain.Īnd when an old enemy comes to town for revenge, Jimmy finds his already fairly chaotic life completely upended-and never to be the same again. And then there’s the pairs of hitmen coming after him. Someone’s sending him a very particular message by sending him severed limbs. The neighborhood’s criminal syndicates are on the brink of all-out war, and if they go at it, the streets will run red-literally.īut Jimmy’s got more problems besides trying to keep the peace between feuding mobsters. But when the run goes wrong, Nero is suddenly placed in mortal peril, and it's up to his team to get him out of a place where one wrong move can leave all of them very, very dead.Īnd Puyallup’s local paranormal investigator Jimmy Kincaid is caught right in the middle of it.

Ghosts from Nero's past clash with danger in his present, as he must now walk a tightrope between the shadowrunning world and the corporate world, an entire universe he knows nothing about, and one that works by its own intricate systems. When a Johnson hires the team to extract her to see what they can do, she surprises them even further with the real mission: infiltrate a high-level business meeting and make sure the pending asset sale goes to the Johnson herself.Īnd there's one more twist to this run: Nero will have to pose as the man who put the entire deal together'”his twin brother Enzowho left him for dead when they were teenagers years ago. Nero is a mage with a murky past, working with a tight-knit crew out of Amsterdam.

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