TY  - BOOK
AU  - Scalzi,John
TI  - Head on
SN  - 9780765388919
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Tor
KW  - Virus diseases
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Epidemics
KW  - Virtual reality
KW  - Sports stories
KW  - Science fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Thrillers (Fiction)
KW  - Psychological fiction
N1  - "A Tom Doherty Associates book."
N2  - 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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