Ghost Racket by Phishstones (5 results)

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Leo 'Leviathan' Petrova thought he understood VR tennis.He understood the speed. The angles. The exhaustion. The trash talk. The strange magic of putting on a headset in an ordinary room and, seconds later, standing beneath the lights of a packed virtual stadium with thousands of people watching.Then he sees a shot that should not exist.One impossible swing changes everything.What begins as suspicion becomes an obsession as Leo discovers that something is wrong inside the competitive world he loves. Matches no longer feel like matches. Victories become evidence. Defeats become questions. Friends begin doubting friends. Players disappear behind usernames, rumors spread faster than facts, and nobody can tell where skill ends and deception begins.The deeper Leo searches, the more dangerous the truth becomes.Because the ghost isn't just hiding in the game.It is hiding inside the people playing it.As Leo is pulled through high-pressure tournaments, broken friendships, secret conversations, accusations, betrayals, and a championship that could change everything, he is forced to confront a brutal question:What happens to a sport when the players stop believing the person across the net is playing by the same rules The Ghost in the Racket V2 is a fast, dark VR-tennis thriller about competition, obsession, trust, technology, and the thin line between wanting to win and needing to win.But beneath the mystery is something more human: players escaping ordinary life for an hour or two, putting on a headset, grabbing a virtual racket, and becoming somebody else.Some play for fun.Some play for friendship.Some play because competition makes them feel alive again.And some will do almost anything to win.Leo wants the truth.He may wish he had never found it.From PhishStones comes a completely reimagined, story-driven edition of The Ghost in the Racket, leading into the next chapter of the saga-Phantom Ace-and toward a new virtual court: ACE VR.The headset goes on.Reality disappears.And somewhere across the net, the ghost is waiting. …

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Title: The Ghost In The Racket: The Hidden War for the Soul of Virtual Sport Author: PhishStones Genre: Investigative Nonfiction / Technology / CybercultureThey told us virtual reality was the purest form of competition. That the physicality of the medium-the need to actually swing your arm-would make it uncheatable. They were wrong.The Ghost In The Racket is the shocking result of a two-year deep dive into the dark underbelly of VR esports. When PhishStones, a sixty-year-old former tennis player with a titanium knee and a hacker's curiosity, first stepped onto the virtual court, he discovered a world where opponents returned serves with impossible power and foresaw shots before they were even made. His quest for answers led him far beyond simple glitches, into a clandestine world of technological deception.You think cheating only happens in smoky backroom poker games? Think again. Welcome to the seedy underbelly of VR Tennis Esports, where backhand winners are coded, Bluetooth mods do the dirty work, and "fair play" is just another marketing slogan.In The Ghost in the Racket, PhishStones rips the lid off the world's fastest-growing VR sport and exposes how some players will do anything-phone spoofers, hacked controllers, shady Discord deals-to climb the ranks. Part memoir, part expose, part boomer-rage comedy, this book swings harder than a McEnroe meltdown and hits right where it hurts.From behind-the-scenes betrayals to late-night tournaments where you can practically smell the desperation through the headset, PhishStones takes you inside the game the way no one else dares. This isn't just about tennis-it's about truth, tech, and the players haunted by the ghost in their racket.Boomer humor. Raw storytelling. A VR scandal you'll never forget. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. The Ghost In the Racket | Phishstones | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2025 | PhishStones | EAN 9798232356545 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.