But London was a modern metroplex, and in the shadows of the corporate towers there was another world; one the megacorps and the Lord Protector’s Greens didn’t rule. London had its shadow world, not unlike Seattle’s. In the corners and the darkness, men and women, shadowrunners, fought the aggressive, uncaring domination of the corporate powers. And when the corps struck back, the runners hid ... in the abandoned stretches that reminded Sam of Seattle’s Barrens, in the teeming hives of the Public Zones beneath the corporate towers, and in the dank tunnels of the service ways and sewers that made up the undercity. Especially in the sewers.