R. L. King's Alastaire Stone Chronicles is up for an award. Vote online at vote here.

This guy sounds like one of her long running characters in her old SR fanfiction.

I haven't read the books in question, nor her full Shadowrun novel, Borrowed Time. I did read Wolf & Buffalo and thought it was passable. The reviews on Amazon are positive, and it doesn't take long to read. (20 PDF pages, plus 3 more for the cover, contents, and character stats page.)