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Tails You Lose | Rating | |
| A | |||
| Lisa Smedman | |||
| Series | Related Books | ||
| Shadowrun | Never Deal with a Dragon, Choose Your Enemies Carefully, Find Your Own Truth, 2XS, Changeling, Never Trust an Elf, Into the Shadows, Streets of Blood, Shadowplay, Night's Pawn, Striper Assassin, Lone Wolf, Fade to Black, Nosferatu, Burning Bright, Who Hunts the Hunter, House of the Sun, Worlds Without End, Just Compensation, Black Madonna, Preying for Keeps, Dead Air, The Lucifer Deck, Steel Rain, Shadowboxer, Headhunters, Stranger Souls, Clockwork Assylum, Beyond the Pale, Blood Sport, Technobabel, Wolf and Raven, Psychotrope, The Terminus Experiment, Run Hard, Die Fast, Crossroads, The Forever Drug, Ragnarock, Tails You Lose, The Burning Time, Born to Run, Poison Agendas, Fallen Angels, Drops of Corruption, Aftershock, A Fistful of Data | ||
Alma, second in charge of security at Pacific Cybernetics, has a problem. One of the corporation's prime researchers has been snatched. That's not the problem - this sort of thing isn't uncommon in the world of 2062. The difficulty lies in how the execs think she did it! And there's evidence to back that view, good evidence that'd be difficult to fake. Alma has only four days to prove her innocense, or else a bomb inside her skull will detonate. But her investigations will lead her to the one person she would never suspect.
Tais You Lose includes one of the best twists I've seen in the Shadowrun setting. It is a bit cliche, I admit, but for that very reason its nature will be unexpected to most people. But I was actually delighted when it was revealed. Smedman pulled it off just beautifully, both while readers don't know what's going on, and during the reveal.
I also enjoyed the story as a whole. It was a fine, fine mystery, and Alma peeled back its secrets in a perfectly logical manner. They say the worth of a character can be measured in her enemies, and Alma has some very smart cookies that she needs to contend with. And, of course, there is that wonderful twist.
While this volume contributes little to the growth of the setting as a whole, this is nevertheless a book I really think fans of the series should not miss. It's simply too good a story.
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