From Dan Wells, author of the New York Times bestselling Partials
Sequence and the John Cleaver series, comes the second book in a dark,
pulse-pounding sci-fi-noir series set in 2050 Los Angeles.
Overworld. It's more than just the world's most popular e-sport--for
thousands of VR teams around the globe, Overworld is life. It means fame
and fortune, or maybe it's a ticket out of obscurity or poverty. If you
have a connection to the internet and four friends you trust with your
life, anything is possible.
Marisa Carneseca is on the hunt for a mysterious hacker named Grendel
when she receives word that her amateur Overworld team has been invited
to Forward Motion, one of the most exclusive tournaments of the year.
For Marisa, this could mean anything--a chance to finally go pro and to
help her family, stuck in an LA neighborhood on the wrong side of the
growing divide between the rich and the poor. But Forward Motion turns
out to be more than it seems--rife with corruption, infighting, and
danger--and Marisa runs headlong into Alain Bensoussan, a beautiful,
dangerous underground freedom fighter who reveals to her the darker side
of the forces behind the tournament. It soon becomes clear that, in this
game, winning might be the only way to get out alive.