Once Giants: The Neon Amazon
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Tina Thompson has the body of a super soldier and the debts to match.
With a superhuman body that requires constant nano-treatments to stay alive, Tina slums it in the favelas of São Paulo as a drug lord's enforcer, cleaning up messes too tough for regular goons to handle.
When a collection run goes bad, Tina faces a choice: She can die, or risk everything on one last job. One to wipe the debts clean and fix her body permanently. But is her freedom worth the price?
Fast paced and gritty, The Neon Amazon is the first installment of Once Giants, a new Cyberpunk action series. If you love kick ass heroines, wise cracking mercenaries and political intrigue set against a new global space race, then Once Giants is the series for you!
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