NEVER TELL YOUR SECRETS TO A DEAD MAN...

Somebody just aced the dragon Dunkelzahn, and one of the mysterious links to the assassination is flat on his back in slab city: a double agent with two identities—both out of commission. Now he's the most-wanted stiff in Tacoma.

Jack Skater's mission? Sleaze past the high-tech funeral security, outwit the Knight Errants, cop the stiff, and keep it on ice long enough to get the answer to the shadowrunners' life-and-death question: what's so hot about a stone-cold corpse?

And that isn't all that's dropped Skater hoop-deep in drek—the UCAS Secret Service is also after the dead man's secret—and the government blue crews are prepared to terminate anyone in sight to get to it first...