SummaryIn the latest novel from #1 New York
Times-bestselling author J.D. Robb, it is game over for
the criminals pursued by NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas.
Bart Minnock, founder of the computer-gaming giant
U-Play, enters his private playroom, and eagerly can’t
wait to lose himself in an imaginary world, to play the role
of a sword-wielding warrior king, in his company’s
latest top-secret project, Fantastical.
The next morning, he is found in the same locked room, in a
pool of blood, his head separated from his body. It is the
most puzzling case Eve Dallas has ever faced, and it is not
a game. . . .
NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas is having as much trouble
figuring out how Bart Minnock was murdered as who did the
murdering. The victim’s girlfriend seems sincerely
grief-stricken, and his quirky-but-brilliant partners at
U-Play appear equally shocked. No one seemed to have a
problem with the enthusiastic, high-spirited millionaire. Of
course, success can attract jealousy, and gaming, like any
business, has its fierce rivalries and dirty tricks—as
Eve’s husband, Roarke, one of U- Play’s
competitors, knows well. But Minnock was not naive, and
quite capable of fighting back in the real world as well as
the virtual one.
Eve and her team are about to enter the next level of police
work, in a world where fantasy is the ultimate
seduction—and the price of defeat is death. . . .
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