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Wild Card Volume XXIII - High Stakes
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Tor Books
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2016
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High Stakes is the twenty-third Wild Cards novel. It is a mosaic novel that takes place immediately following the events of Lowball.
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High Stakes features the following point of view characters and their efforts to drive back the entity known as Horrorshow before his evil influence engulfs the entire world:
| Character | Author | Description |
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| Babel | Stephen Leigh | Committee Vice Chairwoman Babel is in a constant struggle to slow down her lover Lohengrin to find a more pragmatic solution to deal with the situation in Talas. |
| Infamous Black Tongue | David Anthony Durham | Marcus "IBT" Morgan and Olena Davydenko try to save a village of Jokers from Horrorshow's growing influence. |
| Franny Black | Melinda M. Snodgrass | Franny and Baba Yaga or looking for a way out of Kazakhstan to provide information about Horrorshow to the Committee. |
| Tesseract | Ian Tregillis | Portal creating Ace Mollie Steunenberg aka "Tesseract" is confronted with a hard truth when looting Baba Yaga's casino. Can she overcome her own fears to help saving the world? |
| Bubbles | Caroline Spector | Amazing Bubbles is torn between spending time with her daughter Adesina and fighting Chaos in Talas. |
| The Midnight Angel | John Jos. Miller | SCARE Agent Bathsheeba Fox flies to Talas in order to save the Committee Aces lost in Talas. |
Other characters appearances include: Lohengrin, Hoodoo Mama, Bugsy, Carnifex, Snow Blind, Highwayman, Recycler, Tinker, Earth Witch, Aero, Doktor Omweer, Toad Man, Wilma Mankiller, Lama and Glassteel.
| Previous Novel Wild Cards Volume XXII: |
Current Wild Cards Volume XXIII: High Stakes (novel) |
Following Novel Wild Cards Volume XXIV: |
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