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When Dragoons arrive in the Inner Space inexplicably, they put themselves - five regiments of battle-toughened Mech Warriors - up to the highest bidder.

LIFE, DEATH, HONOR, FEALTY

Bushido governs all these concepts. As MechWarrior of the Draconis Combine, Monobu Tetsuhara was bound by Bushido - a code that demands loyal service - to the devious Warlord Grieg Samsonov.

But when Minobu came upon a strange blue-and-gold ARcher, the field llittered with its vanquished opponents and its weapons now empty, Bushido also dictated that he not destroy the honorable but helpless warrior. And so he rescued Jamie Wolf.

Minobu was then assigned as liason to the Wolf's Dragons, one of the Combine's most elite mercenary units, who treated him with the respect due a fellow warrior. When the mercenaries refused to renew ther contract with Samsonov, Minobu was instructed to destroy them.

Now Bushido dictates that Minobu opposes his honorable foe, a man with whom he has served and who deserves far better than betrayal...

Theodore Kurita is heir apparent to the Dragon Combine. But after 20-year odyssey of lethal encounters and narrow escapes, the most dangerous foe of all awaits at the end - his own father!

The year is 2050. The power of magic and the creatures it brings have returned to the earth, and many of the ancient races have re-emerged. Elves, Orks, Mages, and lethal Dragons find a home in a world where mana, technology, and human flesh have melded into deadly urban predators. And the multinational mega-corporations that run the world hoard the only thing of real value--information.

For Sam Verner, living in the womb of the Renraku conglomerate was easy, until his sister disappeared and the façade of the corporate reality began to disintegrate. Now he wants out, but to "extract" himself he has to slide like a whisper through the deadly shadows the corporations cast, into a completely different world where his first wrong move may be his last... the world of Shadowrun.

When Magic returns to the Earth, its power calls Sam Verner. As he searches for his sister through the slick and scary world of 2050, his quest leads him across the ocean to England, where druids rule the streets... and the throne. But all is not what it seems, and Sam and his new shadow friends are plunged into a maze of madness on the trail of destruction.

Only when Sam accepts his destiny as a shaman can he embrace the power he needs. But what waits for him in the final confrontation of technology and human flesh is a secret much darker than anything he knew lay waiting in the shadows...

DESPERATE TIMES...

He was only a "beginner" shaman, but Sam Verner had to find a cure to ward off the curse on his sister. Only something of great magic would do the trick. His quest took him to a mystical citadel in Australia, where, with the aid of his shadowrunner friends, he recovered a strange artifact he hoped would prove helpful.

DESPERATE MEASURES...

But instead of anything that even remotely resembled help, an unexpected and ancient terror was released--a terror that erupted into a shadow war for dominion over an awakened earth. And while the evil kept growing, inexorably drawing him into battle, the curse's power over his sister was also growing, bringing her closer and closer to death.

Soon, a truly desperate Sam realized that the last and only hope for saving his sister was to find the greatest shaman of the Sixth World, former leader of the Great Ghost Dance--a man who may no longer exist...