Never Deal with a Dragon

The year is 2050. Magic has returned to the world, and with it elves, dwarves, orks, trolls and dragons, living alongside cybertech and the megacorporations that treat information as the most precious commodity there is.

Sam Verner has spent his life inside the protective shell of the Renraku conglomerate. When his sister disappears, the comfortable corporate world he trusted starts to crack, and the only way to find her is to walk away from it. To do that he has to cross into the shadows, the underworld where runners do the corporations' dirty work and one wrong move can be the last.

The first Shadowrun novel, and Book One of Robert N. Charrette's Secrets of Power trilogy, first published by Roc in 1990.