num_pages: 369
description: Once upon a time there were four of them. And though each was good at a number of things all of them were very good at games...Dagmar is a game designer trapped in Jakarta in the middle of a revolution. The city is tearing itself apart around her and she needs to get out. Her boss Charlie has his own problems  4.3 billion of them to be precise hidden in an off-shore account. Austin is the businessman  the VC. He's the one with the plan and the one to keep the geeks in line. BJ was there from the start but while Charlie's star rose BJ sank into the depths of customer service. He pads his hours at the call-center slaying on-line orcs stealing your loot and selling it on the internet.But when one of them is gunned down in a parking lot the survivors become players in a very different kind of game. Caught between the dangerous worlds of the Russian Mafia and international finance Dagmar must draw on all her resources  not least millions of online gamers  to track down the killer. In this near-future thriller Walter Jon Williams weaves a pulse-pounding tale of intrigue murder and games where you don't get an extra life.
language: English
title: This is Not a Game
publisher: Orbit