Shadowrun: Rude Awakening, by Bryan CP Steele

BLAST FROM THE PAST…

After saving himself and his runner team from a corporate double-cross, the troll Rude has gone back to his everyday life, trying to figure out what who he was and what he did before someone blanked his memory and left him as just another street samurai trying to survive in the Sixth World.

So when Lazer, a shadowrunner claiming to be one of Rude’s former special ops teammates shows up bleeding on his doorstep, the amnesiac warrior finds a missing piece of the puzzle has fallen right into his lap…bringing even more questions with him. And when Rude goes to investigate a lead supplied by Lazer, he’s aware that he may be walking into a trap…one he might not come back out of…

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