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Hawke, Simon

 
9781502570529: Psychodrome
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ISBN 10 : 1502570521 ISBN 13 : 9781502570529
Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

Psychodrome: Where the ultimate fantasy meets the ultimate reality.

Fresh out of the service, Arkady O'Toole decides to celebrate his freedom with a high-rolling gambling spree on the glittering Ginza Strip of Tokyo. Looking for quick cash and a good time, he pulls up a chair at a high-stakes poker table with some incredibly heavy players.

Then, he makes the most dangerous mistake of his life: He wins.

The powerful man he takes down for an absolute fortune turns out to be a ruthless warlord of the Yakuza -- and the syndicate doesn't take kindly to losing. Desperate to escape a swift and bloody vengeance, Arkay flees into the only place the syndicates can't easily reach: Psychodrome.

As the universe's most popular, mind-linking reality game show, Psychodrome plugs the home audience directly into the raw thoughts and senses of its players. Competitors are dropped into an unforgiving, intergalactic scavenger hunt where the lines between computer-generated fiction and cold reality completely blur.

Arkady enters the simulation hoping to dodge real-world bullets and clean up on prize money, but his past refuses to stay behind, With ninja assassins infiltrating the game matrix and the arena itself engineered to kill, Arkady and his mismatched teammates are about to learn a brutal truth: if the Psychodrome simulation doesn't destroy them, reality absolutely will.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Fresh out of the service, Arkady O'Toole decides to celebrate with a gambling spree on the Ginza Strip of Tokyo. He winds up in a game of high stakes poker with some heavy duty players and makes one very big mistake -- he wins. The man he takes down for a bundle turns out to be a warlord of the Yakuza and Hakim Saqqara doesn't like to lose.Trying to escape Saqqara's vengeance, O'Toole enters Psychodrome, the ultimate reality game show, where the audience can link up and access the thoughts and feelings of the players as they compete in an intergalactic scavenger hut where reality blurs with computer simulation and winning could make a player rich ... or it could make him dead.And as if that wasn't challenging enough, O'Toole discovers that Saqqara's ninja assassins have followed him into the game ....

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Éditeur
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1502570521
ISBN 13 
9781502570529
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
222
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