Players

by PaulMcAuley (Author), PaulMcAuley (Author)

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  Paperback
  2007

  $3.31

  A teenage girl, naked and badly injured, is discovered by two fisherman in mountain forest in Macabee County, Oregon. Before lapsing into a coma, she asks for someone called Billy, and dies before reaching hospital. The dead girl is identified as Edie Collier, last known to be living on the streets of Portland after quarrelling with her mother. That's how Summer Zeigler, a newly qualified detective in the Portland Police Bureau, gets involved: she arrested Edie for shoplifting six months before. Then the body of Edie's boyfriend, Billy, turns up in the Nevada desert. His manner of death, a wound caused by a crossbow bolt and the removal of his heart and eyes, links him to several other murders. Summer's investigations will lead her to the strange mansion of software millionaire Dirk Merritt, who made his fortune from a computer role-playing game called Trans. But cyberspace is no longer enough to fulfil Merritt's fantasies as it once did. Now he wants to play a real-life version of his game. A game with deadly consequences.

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  Paperback
  2008

  $3.31

  A teenage girl found naked and fatally injured in a mountain forest two hundred miles from her home. The mutilated corpse of a young man in the Nevada desert, his heart and eyes removed. The post-apocalyptic world of a role-playing computer game - and the murderous spree of a psychopathic killer driven by delusions of superhuman supremacy. And rookie detective Summer Zeigler, pitched headlong into her first major case. But even as she tries to unpick the killer's twisted logic, he lures her into a cat-and-mouse game with a spectacular climax of his own devising.

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  Hardcover
  2008

  $42.35