Wild Cards. 22, Lowball

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Creative and disturbing submitted by eknapp on November 22, 2014, 7:33am It's a rich, amazing world GRRM has orchestrated. Lowball contains endless cameos for fans of the series--Croyd, Curveball, Earth Witch, Carnifex, Drummer Boy, Tesseract, more--as well as some inventive new characters: Eel, Vaporlock, Wheels, El Monstro, Baba Yaga... As one would expect from a Martin creation, no character is safe so you have to check your expectations at page one.

Stuntman struggles with the failure of his bounceback ability. Frank Black gets promoted young and is shunned by his fellow detectives. His partner Michael Black lives the dream with two cohabiting girlfriends and a wonderful ace toddler daughter. Rustbelt searches for Ghost's missing teacher. IBT and Father Squid lead an effort to find missing jokers. Baba Yaga turns people into living (for a short time) furniture. The satellite plots all fit together to tell the story of a kidnapping ring that forces jokers to fight to the death for the entertainment of the bored sadistic wealthy.

My only complaint is that so much of the story goes unresolved. Typically each Wild Cards installments has a contained story arc, but in this case it ends mid-climax. WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?!