This Is Not a Game
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Once upon a time, there were four of them. And though each was good at a number of things, all of them were very good at games...<BR><BR>Dagmar is a game designer trapped in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Jakarta</st1:place></st1:City> in the middle of a revolution. The city is tearing itself apart around her and she needs to get out. <BR/><BR/><BR/> Her boss Charlie has his own problems -- 4.3 billion of them, to be precise, hidden in an off-shore account.<BR/><BR/><BR/> <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Austin</st1:place></st1:City> is the businessman -- the VC. He's the one with the plan and the one to keep the geeks in line. <BR/><BR/><BR/> BJ was there from the start, but while Charlie's star rose, BJ sank into the depths of customer service. He pads his hours at the call-center slaying on-line orcs, stealing your loot, and selling it on the internet.<BR><BR>But when one of them is gunned down in a parking lot, the survivors become players in a very different kind of game. Caught between the dangerous worlds of the Russian Mafia and international finance, Dagmar must draw on all her resources -- not least millions of online gamers-- to track down the killer. In this near-future thriller, Walter Jon Williams weaves a pulse-pounding tale of intrigue, murder, and games where you don't get an extra life.
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