The Extremes - Hardcover

Priest, Christopher

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684816326 ISBN 13: 9780684816326

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd, 1998

Synopsis

After her husband is killed, Teresa joins a virtual reality company, where she finds relief from her grief in other worlds and personalities. Then she enters the mind of Gerry Grove, the town's assassin. As she explores Grove's virtual existence, Teresa is terrified by what she discovers.

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Review

Dunblane, Port Arthur and Hungerford will be places known to many of us because of the apparently random mass shootings that have happened there in recent years. The Extremes is a book about such violence--it's horror, the sheer bad luck of being its victim, and the anguish it causes to those left behind. It is also a book about virtual reality, and is set in a not-so-distant future in which events of violence can be experienced by anyone prepared (or able) to pay for the privilege.

After her husband has been violently killed in the U.S., Teresa Simons returns to the land of her birth and visits Bulverton, a (fictional) town on the south coast of England which has recently been torn apart by a massacre. She discovers that the ExEx or Extreme Experience virtual reality equipment she used as an FBI trainee has become public "entertainment" put together from people's memories of specific events by vast international companies (and also by shareware programmers). As she becomes embroiled in researching past events in Bulverton, virtual and true realities intertwine with disturbing outcomes.

Priest writes a good yarn, marrying fantasy and horrific reality in a gripping and suspenseful tale. --Sandra Vogel

Book Description

A powerful narrative marrying fantasy and horrific reality in a compelling and alarming tale.

Edition details

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0684816326
• ISBN 13: 9780684816326
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400