Charrette Robert N. Knihy

Kniha volně navazuje na román Shadowrun – Nezačínejte si s drakem. Když se magie vrací na zemi, její síla volá Sama Vernera. Když Sam hledá svou sestru ve zrádných a nebezpečných uličkách padesátých let jednadvacátého století, zavede ho cesta přes Atlantik do Anglie, kde ulicím vládnou druidové… a královský trůn. Ale nic není takové, jak se zdá, a Sam a jeho noví přátelé ze stínů jsou vrženi do bludiště šílenství, které hrozí vše zahubit. Teprve až když Sam přijme svůj osud a stane se šamanem, načerpá sílu, kterou potřebuje. Ale to, co na něj čeká v konečném střetu techniky a člověka, je tajemství mnohem temnější než cokoli, co si vůbec kdy dokázal představit…

Rok 2050: svět se změnil. Věky dřímající magie procitla a s ní se na Zemi vrátily prastaré rasy. Elfové, trpaslíci, orkové i dravci vládnoucí kouzelnou mocí se mísí s technologickou civilizací gigantických hi-tech metropolí i slumů, skrčených v jejich stínu. Mocnými tohoto světa jsou nadnárodní megakorporace, které shromažďují to jediné, co má skutečnou hodnotu – informace. Zajištěná existence Sama Vernera v lůně mamutího koncernu Renraku končí v okamžiku, kdy se mimoděk připlete do soukolí boje o moc. A pokud chce Sam uniknout doživotním okovům světa, ve který již nevěří, musí proklouznout jako stín mezi dlouhými prsty korporací do míst, kde první chybný krok může zároveň být i posledním, ztratit se mezi tisíci jemu podobných a vybudovat si novou identitu vhodnou pro běh mezi stíny.

The Succession Wars, The Marik Civil War, The War of '39, The Clan Invasions.Wolf's Dargoons were victorious in them all!For fifty years, the five mercenary regiments of Wolf's Dargoons have been the toughest MechWarriors in the Inner Sphere. Whatever the job, whatever the odds, Jaime Wolf's Dragoons always won.Now an aging Colonel Wolf is facing the biggest challenge of his career. And the enemy is not an Inner Sphere Lord or a Clan Khan, but a rebellion among his own men!

Bushido governs all these concepts. As a MechWarrior of the Draconis Combine, Minobu Tetsuhara was bound b 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 littered 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 Jaime Wolf. Minobu was then assigned as liaison to the Wolf's Dargoons, 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 their contract with Samsonov, Minobu was instructed to destroy them. Now Bushido dictates that Minobu oppose his honorable foe, a man with whom he has served and who deserves far better than betrayal...

In the sequel to Timespell, Yan Tanafres and Teletha must prove themselves in a battle against the bregil, beastly creatures who wear moonstone amulets and draw their powers from a dragon-like wizardry.

WHERE MAN MEETS MAGIC AND MACHINEThe 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 technology and human flesh have melded into deadly urban predators. And the multinational mega-corporations 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 Sam wants out, but to "extract" himself he has to slide like a whisper through the deadly shadows the corporations cast, through a world where his first wrong move may be his last... the world of Shadowrun.

WHO UNDERSTANDS THE WAYS OF ELVES AND DRAGONS?Some say that the dragons are the most powerful beings on Earth. Certain elves disagree with that belief in the strongest, most violent terms.An ork of the Seattle ghetto, Kham usually worries about more mundane problems. Day-to-day existence in the now magically active world of 2053 is tough enough. But all that is about to change.Drawn into a dangerous game of political and magical confrontation, Kham not only learns to never deal with a dragon - he also discovers that trusting an elf may leave you dead...

WASHINGTON IS BURNING! Andy is happy as a shadowrunner wannabe, but when he accidentally gets involved with real runners, the game of Let's Pretend is over. So is his safe corporate life. Andy's half brother, UCAS Army Major Tom Rocquette, has some doubts about what he's involved with too. Why, for example, is he being ordered to mercilessly massacre the Compensation Army, a group that, like him, only seeks justice? Andy and Tom, along with runners Markowitz and Kit, are finding out things that could put many lives in danger and point to a sinister web of dirty politicians, dishonorable officers, and misused tech and magic--a conspiracy that could dismantle the UCAS government! Can Andy and Tom find enough evidence to prove it--and stop it--before the nation's capital is buried under a heap of bloody corpses...?

Theodore Kurita, heir to the Draconis Combine, prepares himself for the day he must depose his father from the position of Coordinator