The Assassination Game
by Anthony O'connor
Barry has been forced into a dark-web based gladiator game. Forty contestants with different weapons fighting it out on the streets of Canberra. There can be only one survivor - who will get a cool two million in bitcoin. His best mate Simon works for the Australian Secret Spy Agency (the ASSA). He's trying to find out who is running the game, and to save Barry. He summons a couple of operatives from the Special Ground Services (the SGS) to provide some firepower if needed.
Australia has become a violent place. The newly elected Prime Minister Pepper Banson has renamed the top job to Supreme Minister and pushed through the seventeenth amendment to the constitution guaranteeing to all the right to bear arms up to and including rocket launchers. Cricket and even net-ball have become blood sports.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are running the game. But who are they? And behind them lurks the evil, sinister figure of Hassan-i Sabbah - a short fat blond-haired Englishman. His motives are not at all clear. But the crows are definitely on his side.
A fast high-action thriller with a high body count. And a very dark, funny and sarcastic look at a dangerous and dystopic future.
Australia has become a violent place. The newly elected Prime Minister Pepper Banson has renamed the top job to Supreme Minister and pushed through the seventeenth amendment to the constitution guaranteeing to all the right to bear arms up to and including rocket launchers. Cricket and even net-ball have become blood sports.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are running the game. But who are they? And behind them lurks the evil, sinister figure of Hassan-i Sabbah - a short fat blond-haired Englishman. His motives are not at all clear. But the crows are definitely on his side.
A fast high-action thriller with a high body count. And a very dark, funny and sarcastic look at a dangerous and dystopic future.
