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Head on / John Scalzi.

by Scalzi, John, 1969-

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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2018.

Virus diseases -- Fiction.

Virtual reality -- Fiction.

Epidemics -- Fiction.

Large print ed.

433 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.

"A novel of the near future"--Cover.

"A stand-alone, near future thriller set in the Lock in universe"--Book jacket.

"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."--From publisher.

Science fiction.

Suspense fiction.

Horror fiction.

Dystopian fiction.

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