Game of the Gods
A Novel
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- USD 11.99
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- USD 11.99
Descripción editorial
“The A-Team and X-Men in an exotic futuristic setting. Great adventure with many layers.” —Kevin J. Anderson, New York Times bestselling author
Jay Schiffman's Game of the Gods is a debut sci-fi/fantasy thriller of political intrigue and Speilberg-worthy action sequences in the vein of Pierce Brown's Red Rising.
Max Cone wants to be an ordinary citizen of the Federacy and leave war and politics behind. He wants the leaders of the world to leave him alone. But he’s too good a military commander, and too powerful a judge, to be left alone. War breaks out, and Max becomes the ultimate prize for the nation that can convince him to fight again.
When one leader gives the Judge a powerful device that predicts the future, the Judge doesn’t want to believe its chilling prophecy: The world will soon end, and he’s to blame. But bad things start to happen. His wife and children are taken. His friends are falsely imprisoned. His closest allies are killed. Worst of all, the world descends into a cataclysmic global war.
In order to find his family, free his friends, and save the world, the Judge must become a lethal killer willing to destroy anyone who stands in his way. He leads a ragtag band of warriors—a 13-year old girl with special powers, a mathematical genius, a religious zealot blinded by faith, and a former revolutionary turned drug addict. Together, they are the only hope of saving the world.
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Schiffman combines human drama with high-stakes political intrigue in a daring debut brought down only by its by-the-numbers setting. Max Cone is a high judge in the totalitarian Federacy, charged with approving or denying claims to Federacy citizenship. He longs to step out of the political limelight and spend time with his beloved family, but his dreams are shattered when the world is plunged into a catastrophic war and his wife and children are killed. Different nations vie to have Cone as their pawn, but he only wants to avenge his loved ones and keep the world he knows from utterly collapsing. To these ends, he joins with a band of outsiders, including a telepathic teenager, a mathematical genius, a religious fanatic, and a drug-addled former revolutionary. Schiffman's novel falls prey to the typical trappings of post-apocalyptic fiction: the society is bureaucratic and totalitarian, and the descriptive passages are clunky. Where Schiffman's work shines is in the character-driven drama and the well-developed band of misfits. Though there are some admirable twists and turns, the unoriginal premise hobbles an otherwise impressive work.
