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Title Statement | Head on [largetype] / John Scalzi. |
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Series | Thorndike large print basic series |
Author | Scalzi, John, 1969- |
Publication | Waterville, Maine: Thorndike Press,2018.©2018 |
Edition | Large print edition. |
Extent of Item | 433 pages ; |
ISBN | 1432853236 9781432853235 |
Other Number | 3448202 |
General Notes | "A novel of the near future"--Cover. |
Summary | 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. |
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