'Blackmail' Is Such an Ugly Word: Gregory insists on trying to put a positive spin on the fact he's holding Riko's file over her head.Big Brother Instinct: Indigo's relationship with Nanji.They also serve as The Man Behind the Man. Big Bad: MetaCore is the company behind the necrotech zombies.She has similar feelings toward Malik Reed. Belligerent Sexual Tension: Riko has a somewhat one-sided set of this with Detective Gregory.Ambiguous Ending: Riko shoots herself in the head in Nanoshock.Ambiguously Brown: Riko was kicked out (or ran away) of the 'anglo compound' because she wasn't white enough due to recesssive genes.She's also A Lighter Shade of Black than everyone else around her. Antihero: Riko is crude, rude, lewd, irreverent, and a professional criminal.

The Aloner: Having a relentlessly hostile and angry attitude to everyone and everything will leave you with no friends or allies.

That's fine, she prefers to do it her way anyway. As such, she has no allies and a very bad reputation with every person she deals with. Unfortunately, she has a tendency to offend her fellow criminals with her attitude too. Riko has no desire to engage with any of the corporations or Dirty Cop authority figures who rule the world but only survive by her wits. This results in them spreading like cancer and eventually consuming the body, reanimating it as a cyborg without a soul called a Necrotech. It is a setting where cybernetically enhanced Runners live off the grid without their SIN codes and survive through various acts of crime.Ĭybernetic enhancements aren't without their own dangers, though, as there's a condition where the nanites that allow them to remain in your body go beserk. They follow the adventures of street mercenary, Riko, who is living in the ruins of what was formerly America. SINless is a series of Cyberpunk books by K.C.

Necrotech by K.C. Alexander