{"product_id":"9780765388933-head-on-a-novel-of-the-near-future","title":"Scalzi John - Head On A Novel Of The Near Future - Paperback","description":"Binding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: \" As much as Scalzi has the scientific creativity of a Michael Crichton he also has the procedural chops of a Stephen J. Cannell to craft a whodunit with buddy - cop charm and suspects aplenty most of them in someone else's body.\" US a Today John Scalzi returns with Head On the standalone follow - up to the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed Lock In. Chilling near - future SF with the thrills of a gritty cop procedural Head On brings Scalzi's trademark snappy dialogue and technological speculation to the future world of sports. Hilketa is a frenetic and violent pastime where players attack each other with swords and hammers. The main goal of the game: obtain your opponent's head and carry it through the goalposts. With flesh and bone bodies a sport like this would be impossible. But all the players are threeps robot - like bodies controlled by people with Haden's Syndrome so anything goes. No one gets hurt but the brutality is real and the crowds love it. Until a star athlete drops dead on the playing field. Is it an accident or murder? FBI Agents and Haden - related crime investigators Chris Shane and Leslie Vann are called in to uncover the truth and in doing so travel to the darker side of the fast - growing sport of Hilketa where fortunes are made or lost and where players and owners do whatever it takes to win on and off the field.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: Head On A Novel Of The Near Future\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Scalzi John\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Tor Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9780765388933\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 336 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\nLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 3\/26\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\nSeries: The Lock In Series\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Scalzi John","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49597824270641,"sku":"IN-G-9780765388933","price":10.82,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9780765388933.jpg?v=1724452411","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9780765388933-head-on-a-novel-of-the-near-future","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}