The one I picked—one Dr. Mary Dacia, known to the street as Doc Dicer—had a good rep among the Cutters, and was even mentioned as a "resource of last resort" in my Lone Star briefing when I was transferred to Seattle from Milwaukee. Apparently a real-and-for-true M.D., specializing in trauma cases, with publications in the academic literature and everything. (So, why the frag is she working as a shadow cutter and not a real doc? Got me hangin’.) Doc Dicer works out of a defunct restaurant on Blanchard, within sight of the Space Needle. A small, well-built woman with short red hair, she’s tough, competent, and has a real frosty edge. And yet I sense a caring human being under that street-hard facade. Best I could do for Paco, and maybe good enough.