THE GAME IS GLOBAL. THE CONSEQUENCES ARE FATAL.
For millions of fans, Ultimatus is the ultimate test of skill: a virtual battlefield where legends are born. For Noah Jones, a New York City bike messenger, an invitation to the 5th Annual Tournament is a dream come true, a chance to escape the grind and win a guaranteed one million euros.
But for CIA operative Mark Sloan, Ultimatus is a crime scene. Tasked with infiltrating the tournament to find missing American players, Mark enters the game undercover as the avatar "Slowpry."
The venue? The Ultimus II, a luxury superyacht disguised beneath a chaotic, floating shantytown in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The host? Fellini, a reclusive genius with a God complex.
As the tournament begins, the horrifying truth of the "Full Consequences" clause is revealed. The high-tech Ultisuits binding the players to the game aren't just controllers. They are executioners. Rigged with lethal toxins, the suits ensure that when an avatar dies in the game, the player dies in real life.
Trapped in international waters with no backup, Mark must forge an alliance with veteran champion Gina Gazzoni and rookie Noah Jones. In a game where the code is rigged and the only way out is to win, they must ask themselves:
How many people are you willing to kill to stay alive?
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - ULTIMATUS isn't just a game-it's an addiction with a body count. Around the world, gifted young players are drawn into a hyper-realistic virtual combat arena by the promise of fame and fortune, unaware that every kill feels real because every death might be. When talented gamers start vanishing-a Czech boy lost in Marseille, an Irish teen gone silent, a Brazilian heir who disappears without a trace-grieving families hit a wall of silence, until investigators across three continents connect a pattern too disturbing to ignore. The CIA traces the disappearances to a secretive gaming corporation and deploys its most unlikely asset: a brilliant hacker and a hardened Navy SEAL, forced to share one avatar and fight their way toward an invitation-only tournament that rewards survivors and erases everyone else. As an international cast of players claws toward the game's untraceable, godlike creator, the line between the digital battlefield and the real world starts to collapse. A propulsive techno-thriller about ambition, addiction, and a game that convinces the world consequences aren't real. until they are. Seller Inventory # 9798245933344