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Lone Wolf | Rating | |
| B | |||
| Nigel Findley | |||
| 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 | ||
Rick Larson is a deep cover mole for Lone Star, infiltrating one of Seattle's top-tier gangs. And he's doing a fine job keeping the law appraised of the Cutters' doings. Then things go all to hell. The Cutters suddenly want him dead, and Lone Star isn't being exactly very helpful, either. His only hope is to find out just who the Cutters' new client is and why then need a street gang - information he wasn't privy to even when the gang actually liked him.
In a lot of ways this story is very similar to 2XS, also by Findley. One person has to figure out what's going on while everybody and his brother wants him dead. The main character has no magic to his name and minimal cyborg enhancements. He has contacts inside Lone Star, doesn't trust shadowrunners much, and is in way over his head. And the shadowrunners end up working practically for free - can't forget that.
Of course, there are differences as well. But besides the specifics that make this a story of its own and not just the same old same old, one stands out. Unfortunately, it's to the book's detriment. Namely, the wry wit and cynicism of Dirk Montgomery isn't there. And that makes the entire book just a little less lively. While still a fine story, Lone Wolf lacked that extra something that kept me smiling as I read.
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