Deadly Games by Hilary Norman - USED

Criminal justice professor Jake Woods is shocked by the inexplicable disappearance of the teenage son of good friends. In his efforts to help, he uncovers a link to a similar case in New York City, where Lydia Johanssen is currently going through every mother’s hell after her sixteen-year-old son vanished on an evening out with friends. Soon the official missing persons database throws up more related cases, teenagers with three things in common: good looks, athleticism... and the fact that each of them disappeared after receiving an anonymous gift of Limbo, a violent, bestselling computer game. The partners of Eryx Software, the company behind Limbo, are deeply concerned that someone should be exploiting their game in such an appalling way. But, in the absence of any ransom demands, the FBI is having to cast its nets into a frighteningly vast ocean. A single father himself, Jake can’t help but identify with Lydia’s plight. But the deeper involved he becomes the greater the danger. For this is no ordinary kidnapper. This is an individual for whom the margins between reality and fantasy have blurred beyond all recognition. To him, it’s all just a game...

ISBN: 9780749932657