Scalzi, John 1969- creator author. text Fiction. Psychological fiction. Science fiction. Sports fiction. Thrillers (Fiction) Horror fiction. Science fiction. Sports fiction. Science fiction. Thrillers (Fiction) Psychological fiction. nyu 2018 2018 First edition. monographic eng

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335 pages ; 22 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. adult John Scalzi. "A Tom Doherty Associates book." n-us--- Virus diseases Fiction Epidemics Fiction Virtual reality Fiction FICTION Science Fiction Action & Adventure FICTION Thrillers Crime FICTION Science Fiction Cyberpunk Epidemics Virtual reality Virus diseases PS 3619 .C256H43 2018 813/.6 9780765388919 076538891X 2018288565 SFSPUL 180924 20220412093145.0 20679870 eng