num_pages: 320
description: John Chu is a sherpa a paid guide to online role-playing games like the popular Call to Wizardry. For a fee he and his crew will provide you with a top-flight character equipped with the best weapons and armor and take you dragon-slaying in the Realms of Asgarth hunting rogue starships in the Alpha Sector or battling hordes of undead in the zombie apocalypse.Chus new client the pseudonymous Mr. Jones claims to be a wealthy famous person with powerful enemies and hes offering a ridiculous amount of money for a comprehensive tour of the world of virtual-reality gaming. For Chu this is a dream assignment but as the tour gets underway he begins to suspect that Mr. Jones is really North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un whose interest in VR gaming has more to do with power than entertainment. As if that werent enough to deal with Chu also has to worry about Ms. Pang who may or may not be an agent of the Peoples Republic of China and his angry ex-girlfriend Darla Jean Covington who isnt the type to let an international intrigue get in the way of her own plans for revenge.What begins as a whirlwind online adventure soon spills over into the real world. Now Chu must use every trick and resource at his disposal to stay one step aheadbecause in real life there is no reset button.
language: English
title: 88 Names
publisher: Harper