Shadowrun: Shaken

De: Russell Zimmerman

Narrado por: Robert Austin James

Down these dark streets…

Most folks see Puyallup as the worst Seattle’s got to offer; a tangled mess of metahumanity and greet, poverty and ghettoes, vice and corruption, where the crime is more organized than the government. They call it a Barrens, an armpit, a cesspool.

Jimmy Kincaid, though, calls it home. Walking the line between shadows and the desperate light, semi-legit like only a Puyallup brat and former cop can be, he insists Puyallup has a heart and a soul, that it’s a place of life, magic, and starving hope. A former combat mage, now as burnt out as his neighborhood, he does what he can to police the worst excesses of the crime-riddled city he loves.

In the darkness of the Seattle Sprawl, what’s one more murder? To Kincaid, it’s everything. He’s got a dead mentor, a hermetic group in need, and a mysterious file that might have been worth killing for. To unlock the data and get a little justice, he’ll face the worst the Sprawl has to offer, wading through blood, darkness, and a murderous web of lies.

It’s a good thing he’s got friends - in high and low places...

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Jimmy Kinkaid baby! Woo hoo!

I love Jimmy Kinkaid. He's my favorite character. And the audible narrator has him nailed to the T!

Well written and well read

A friend suggested Shadowrun to me because I like Sci-fi and fantasy. Going into this book that's all I knew about the Shadowrun universe, that it was a mix of the two. I was not at all disappointed. The book blends the two genres together pretty seamlessly. The story is interesting and action packed with a neo-noir flavor that reminded me of Blade Runner with magic. Where this book really shines though is the performance of Robert James. He does an exquisite job handling the material. He gives the main character the same neo-noir pacing and cadence that the style of the writing calls for. His character voices are different and distinct from one another and he reads the dialogue with the same intensity that I would imagine the writer intended. I would say the narration was a 10 out of 10.

one of my favorites

I was blown away twice by this story. first time was when I read it. second time by the awesome performance by Mr. James. I look forward to hearing the rest of the Kincaid stories read by him.

Great Narration and introduction to this character

my first introduction to this character. It kept me gripped and the narrator was on point. He really helped with the immersion. Tren Sparks is okay, but he doesn't hold a candle to Mr. James

Good Shadowrun story, but...

Someone needs to lay off the Adobe Audition echo chamber and flange effects. The overuse causes parts of the story to be almost unlistenable.