Divorcee, Phillip McKenzie has invented the most anticipated online game ever and millions of gamers wait on servers for connection.
Struggling with life with her recovering junkie mother, Phillip’s daughter Lisa uses virtual reality to lose herself. The arrival of free access to the game from her father, together with the visor needed to play, gives her another avenue for escape.
However something dark is lurking in the game, a living virus, and when Lisa's brother Timmy is pulled into the VR World, she must play to save him.
With time running out, Phillip battles to overcome the virus, while Lisa and a group of gamers fight to save Timmy’s life. But not all gamers want to play the good guy, and the living virus has its own allies...She's desperate to get out of the VR world and destroy the existence of Man for their betrayal many, many years ago.
You die in this game, you die for real.
This sounds like a book perfect for horror fans, and gamers. Check out just a few of the great reviews this book has been getting:
“The Game is a state-of-the-art thriller that I tore through in two sittings. It is, in equal turns, chilling, exhilarating and revealing.
Being a gamer myself, I really appreciated the amount of authentic detail Pletzers has sunk into the story. He has, without a doubt, captured the sweaty-palmed, feverish intensity of VR. Made the moral and emotional dilemmas more real than real.
The premise may be futuristic, but the gritty subculture is firmly rooted in the here and now.
Highly, highly recommended!”
“Lee Pletzers's novel, The Game I just finished reading Lee Pletzers's novel, The Game, the ultimate horror novel for gamers. Not only was it packed with virtual horror excitement, but also with characters' situations that felt real. We get inside the head of a junkie hooker, an underage girl being raped by her coke-head mom's boyfriend and her subsequent horror at her little brother's abduction by the nemesis, a woman not human, and her huge demon slave ready to beat anyone into the dust who goes against his master's wishes. I've never read a novel like this before, and I definitely recommend it. Buy it when it comes out (it's not yet released) and you won't be sorry!”
“I have read this entire book. You guys and gals should read The Game and more important BUY THIS BOOK!!!
I'm actually kind of envious that Lee was able to do a book where the characters are inside a game. He came up with a realistic way that... it could happen. It's really cool. Honestly, I couldn't be more enthusiastic about a new book. Usually I read novels that have been out for more than 20 years. This book ranks with some of the very best novels that I have ever read.
Please people support one of the unknown guys and make him known.
The Game is a book that deserves to get some wide attention.
And wouldn't it be cool to have a video game made from this book about people trapped inside a video game.
Talk about screwing with your mind.
Playing that would be wild.”
Like the review says, “Buy this book!” It is available on the:
Kindle (US), Kindle (UK), and Paperback.
For more information on "The Game," and author Lee Pletzers, please visit:
Also, follow Lee Pletzers on Twitter, "Like" "The Game" fan page on Facebook, and visit his Kindle Store.
