The Zero Game (Brad Meltzer)

The Zero Game

Brad Meltzer

Blurb: Come play the Zero Game - you can bet your life on it...

Matthew Mercer and Harris Sandler are best friends who have plum jobs as senior staffers to well-respected congressmen. But after a decade in Washington, idealism has faded to disillusionment, and they're bored. Then one of them finds out about the clandestine Zero Game.

It starts out as good fun - a simple wager between friends. But when someone close to them ends up dead, Harris and Matthew realise the game is far more sinister than they ever imagined - and that they're about to be the game's next victims.

One the run, they turn to the only person they can trust: a sixteen-year-old Senate page who can move around the Capitol undetected. As a ruthless killer creeps closer, this idealistic page not only holds the key to saving their lives, but it also determined to redeem them in the process.

Brad Meltzer's super-charged new thriller will take you on a white-knuckle rollercoaster of a read, and confirms him as the most dazzling suspense writer of his generation.

ISBN: 0340825014 (Hardback)

Year: 2004

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Pages: 460 (Fiction)

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The Playboy Interviews - They Played the Game (Edited by Stephen Randall)

The Playboy Interviews - They Played the Game

Edited by Stephen Randall

Blurb: In a magazine known for its photographs, the Playboy Interview stands out today as the best long-form interview in any magazine. The Interview is both incisive and entertaining, and important figures from all walks of life - many of whom honour no other interview requests - have given life - and career-altering interviews in the magazine's pages.

The Playboy Interviews: They Played the Game is the first in an ongoing series that will collect the most memorable interviews from the magazine's history. They Played the Game features some of the most revered - and reviled - American sports stars from the past six decades candidly discussing controversial issues including race, gender, drugs and sex. From Pete Rose's frank statements about gambling in sports to Mike Tyson's incendiary thoughts on the alleged rape that haunted his boxing career, from Billie Jean King's views of the changing role of women in professional sports to O.J. Simpson's raw and unsettling statements both before and after the deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, there has never been a compilation of interviews quite like this one. More than simply jocks talking sports, these conversations are a fascinating reflection of the American psyche and our ever evolving cultural perceptions. 

ISBN: 9781595820464 (Hardback)

Year: 2006

Publisher: Milwaukie Press

Pages: 480 (Non-Fiction)

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Game of Thrones: Book One of A Song of Ice and Fire (George R.R. Martin)

Game of Thrones: Book One of A Song of Ice and Fire

George R.R. Martin

Blurb: Kings and queens, knights and renegades, liars, lords and honest men. All will play the Game of Thrones.

Summers span decades. Winter can last a lifetime. And the struggle for the Iron Throne has begun. It will stretch from the south, where heat breeds plot, lusts and intrigues; to the vast frozen north where a 700-foot wall of ice protects the kingdom from the dark forces that lie beyond. The Game of Thrones. You win, or you die.

Book One of A Song of Ice and Fire begins the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age.

ISBN: 9780007428540 (Paperback)

Year: 1996

Publisher: Harper Voyager

Pages: 801 (Fiction)

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