When virtual reality games turn dangerous, defeat equals death – as Lieutenant Eve Dallas discovers in this futuristic whodunit from Nora Roberts, writing as J. D. Robb.
In New York City 50 years from now, Bart Minnock is the genius behind the top-secret virtual reality game Fantastical. When Bart shuts himself in his playroom, he enters the imaginary world of a sword-wielding warrior-king. But one night, the fantasy turns horribly real, and he loses his head – quite literally.
Motives and explanations for how the killer breached a locked room are in short supply. What Eve does know is that while Bart may have been unvanquished in game mode, in real life, he lost the fight that mattered most ...