Head on

Scalzi, John 1969- (author.).

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.

Item details

ISBN: 9780765388919
ISBN: 076538891X
ISBN: 9780765388926
ISBN: 9781250188922
ISBN: 9781509835102
ISBN: 1509835105
Physical Description: print
335 pages ; 22 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Tor, 2018.
Copyright: ©2018

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General Note:

"A Tom Doherty Associates book."

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