Head on
A Novel of the Near Future
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2018.
Format: Large Print
Edition: Large print edition.
Description: 433 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Hilketa is a frenetic and violent pastime where players attack each other with swords and hammers. The main goal of the game: obtain your opponent's head and carry it through the goalposts. With flesh and bone bodies, a sport like this would be impossible. But all the players are "threeps," robot-like bodies controlled by people with Haden's Syndrome, so anything goes. No one gets hurt, but the brutality is real and the crowds love it. Until a star athlete drops dead on the playing field. Is it an accident or murder? FBI Agents and Haden-related crime investigators, Chris Shane and Leslie Vann, are called in to uncover the truth--and in doing so travel to the darker side of the fast-growing sport of Hilketa, where fortunes are made or lost, and where players and owners do whatever it takes to win, on and off the field.
Series: Thorndike Press large print basic
Subjects:
Virus diseases -- Fiction.
Epidemics -- Fiction.
Virtual reality -- Fiction.
Large type books.
Virus diseases -- Fiction.
Epidemics -- Fiction.
Virtual reality -- Fiction.
Large type books.
ISBN:
9781432853235
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