- Hardcover: 590 pages
- Publisher: Magna Large Print Books; Large Print edition edition (15 May 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0750518375
- ISBN-13: 978-0750518376
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Widower Jake Woods is a family man who cops out of being a police officer to become a professor in a peaceful New England University. During the summer vacation a friend tells him her handsome teenage son has disappeared. Hes been missing for a month and shes heard nothing. The police have dismissed the youth as a run-away. Cut off from the usual channels of support, she begs Jake to help. Jake leaves academia behind and enters the aberrant world of a sophisticated, intelligent abductor. In doing so he places his own children in jeopardy. Later, in New York he meets single parent Lydia Johanssen, distraught after her teenager sons disappearance. Robbie, like the other young victims, is good-looking and athletic and has recently received a free copy of Limbo through the mail. A violent computer game, Limbo is set in post-apocalypse Manhattan where the last surviving teenagers in the city battle Ghoulo himself for their survival. The killer plays this deadly game with his young prey and no longer has the capacity to separate the imaginary from the real. This eerily up-to-date thriller creates suspense and terror without the use of gratuitous violence. The author builds layers of tension to a dramatic climax and just when the reader has begun to relax she throws in an action-packed d?nouement. Jake Woods is a well-drawn character of some depth. A thoroughly good man, hes the touchstone of morality in a world where competition creates monsters and compassion rescues and heals. (Kirkus UK)
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Steel and Dakota
9 July 2005
Format:Hardcover
This is my first Hilary Norman novel and it definitly will not be my last. I was very impressed by the quality, granted some major events were a little bit predicatable but this factor did not lessen the overall enjoyment of the novel.
In Deadly Games ex cop turned university professor Jake Woods is asked by his long term friends the Coopers to convince the local police force their son Michael has been kidnapped and is not a runaway. Being a single farther Jake does what he can and soon learns a New York mother Lydia Johanseen's son has also gone missing after receiving the computer game Limbo in the mail, as did Michael. Jake's involvement brings his great danger as kidnapper only wants the worthy players he selects to be Steel and Dakota to play the game.
In Deadly Games ex cop turned university professor Jake Woods is asked by his long term friends the Coopers to convince the local police force their son Michael has been kidnapped and is not a runaway. Being a single farther Jake does what he can and soon learns a New York mother Lydia Johanseen's son has also gone missing after receiving the computer game Limbo in the mail, as did Michael. Jake's involvement brings his great danger as kidnapper only wants the worthy players he selects to be Steel and Dakota to play the game.
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