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MindWar by Andrew Klavan
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MindWar

A Novel

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Narrator Andrew Kanies
Length 8 hours
Language English
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When Rick lost the ability to run, he came one step closer to becoming a hero.

New High Score! New Record Time!

Rick nodded with grim satisfaction. He laid the game controller aside on the sofa and reached for his crutches.

Rick Dial was the best quarterback Putnam Hills High School had ever seen. Unflappable. Unstoppable. Number 12. But when a car accident left him crippled, Rickā€™s life as he knew it ended. He disavowed his triumphant past. He ignored his girlfriend. He disappeared into his bedroomā€”and into the glowing video screen.

But Rickā€™s uncanny gaming skills have attracted attention. Dangerous attention. Government agents have uncovered a potentially devastating cyber-threat: a Russian genius has created a digital reality called the Realm, from which he can enter, control, and disrupt American computer systems . . . from transportation to defense. The agents want Rick, quick-thinking quarterback and gaming master, to enter the Realm and stop the madmanā€”before he sends America into chaos.

Entering the Realm will give Rick what he thought heā€™d never have again: a body as strong and fast as it was before the accident. But this is no game, there are no extra lives, and what happens to Rick in the Realm happens to Rickā€™s body in reality.

Even after Rick agrees to help, he canā€™t shake the sense that heā€™s being kept in the dark. Why would a government agency act so aggressively? Can anyone inside the Realm be trusted? How many others have entered before him . . . and failed to return?

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In the tradition of Enderā€™s Game and The Matrix, MindWar is a complex thriller about a seemingly ordinary teenager who discovers a hidden giftā€”a gift that could make him a hero . . . or cost him everything.

"Edgar Awardā€“winning Klavanā€™s well-orchestrated fantasy thriller features . . . an imaginative mix of gaming action with real-life stakes. With just the right cliff-hanger ending, this trilogy opener shows promise." ā€”Booklist

Andrew Klavan is an award-winning writer, screenwriter, and media commentator. An internationally bestselling novelist and two-time Edgar Award-winner, Klavan is also a contributing editor to City Journal, the magazine of the Manhattan Institute, and the host of a popular podcast on DailyWire.com, The Andrew Klavan Show. His essays and op-eds on politics, religion, movies, and literature have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the LA Times, and elsewhere.

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