Title : Mindwar
Author : Andrew Klavan
Release Date: 07/15/14
Pages : 352
Summary from Goodreads:
Rick Dial has the potential
to be a hero. He just doesn't know it yet.
Rick's high school football team couldn't be stopped when he was leading them as their quarterback. He was going to Syracuse on a scholarship. But then his dad abandoned them and a terrible accident left him crippled.
Certain his old life is completely lost, Rick spends months hiding away in his room playing video games. He achieves the highest scores on so many games that he's approached by a government agency who claims to be trying to thwart a cyber attack on America that would destroy the technological infrastructure of the entire country. The agents say that the quick-thinking of a quarterback coupled with Nick's gaming experience make him perfect for this assignment. The problem is that there are no extra lives and this isn't just a game . . . but Rick doesn't have many other options at the moment.
Entering "The Realm" gives Rick the one thing he thought he'd never have again: a body that's as fast and as strong as he ever was before the accident. But the more time he spends in The Realm, the more questions he has. What secrets are these agents keeping from him? What really happened to his father? How many others have gone into The Realm already . . . and failed? And perhaps most important, is he the hero they think he is?
Rick's high school football team couldn't be stopped when he was leading them as their quarterback. He was going to Syracuse on a scholarship. But then his dad abandoned them and a terrible accident left him crippled.
Certain his old life is completely lost, Rick spends months hiding away in his room playing video games. He achieves the highest scores on so many games that he's approached by a government agency who claims to be trying to thwart a cyber attack on America that would destroy the technological infrastructure of the entire country. The agents say that the quick-thinking of a quarterback coupled with Nick's gaming experience make him perfect for this assignment. The problem is that there are no extra lives and this isn't just a game . . . but Rick doesn't have many other options at the moment.
Entering "The Realm" gives Rick the one thing he thought he'd never have again: a body that's as fast and as strong as he ever was before the accident. But the more time he spends in The Realm, the more questions he has. What secrets are these agents keeping from him? What really happened to his father? How many others have gone into The Realm already . . . and failed? And perhaps most important, is he the hero they think he is?
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Excerpt :
He looked around him. The first
thing he saw—the only thing he saw at first—was a strange purple shape floating
impossibly in the air beside him, a glowing three-dimensional purple diamond
about two feet high and a foot wide. He watched, fascinated, as the thing
glowed and pulsed and turned slowly in midair.
That must be the portal
point, he thought.
That was the way in—and the way
out. He would have to keep that in sight at all times, just as Miss Ferris had
said.
He felt there was more around
him. He looked up.
“Oh my . . . WOW!” he said
loudly.
He was standing on a little hill,
surrounded by the strangest landscape he had ever seen. The color of it—it was
wild! The hill was red—a scarlet red so bright it hurt his eyes. A gently
undulating scarlet plain flowed down from his feet, and ran toward the horizon,
ending in a forest of bright blue trees. Above the scarlet plain and the blue
forest hung a low sky of the deepest, most beautiful yellow. Here and there the
bright colors seemed to mingle in stirring cloud-like streaks of bright orange
and green.
Stunned by the rainbow-like
beauty of the place, Rick turned this way and that, gaping in amazement. It was
as if he had stepped into a painting or a movie cartoon. He was so mesmerized
by the red valley and the blue woods and the streaked yellow sky that it took a
moment before something else amazing—really amazing—suddenly occurred to him.
He was standing up! He was! He
was standing free. No crutches! No pain! Not even any weakness. He looked down
at his legs. He was still dressed as he had been, in a black T-shirt and jeans.
But his legs were straight now. They felt fine. More than fine. They felt
strong!
Rick let out a laugh. This was
incredible! In-crazy-credible! He felt so . . . so good! Better than he’d felt
in ages, since the accident. He lifted one foot high and wiggled it in the air,
then he set it back down and lifted the other. He hopped in a circle, laughing
again, a high-pitched whoop of laughter this time. He began dancing around on
the hilltop.
“Whoo-hoo!” he shouted.
“Whoo-whoo-whoo-hoo!”
He tucked an invisible football
beneath his arm and ran across the ridge, straight-arming imaginary blockers.
“Yaaaaah!” he screamed.
He spun around at the end and
rushed back, running till he reached the floating purple diamond.
He shouted: “Touchdown!”
He spiked the invisible ball into
the red, red earth. He lifted his face to that weirdly beautiful yellow sky. He
lifted his hands in celebration and did a victory dance. He was healed! He
could walk! He could run and jump and kick and . . .
What was that?
He stopped. Still panting from
his celebration, he stood still. He peered into the distance, over the flowing
red plain, toward the line of blue trees where the weird forest began. Had he
seen something over there? A movement? He stood, staring. There was nothing.
Then, suddenly—yes!—there it was
again.
About the Author
Andrew Klavan is
a best-selling, award-winning thriller novelist whose books have been made into
major motion pictures. He broke into the YA scene with the bestselling Homelanders
series, starting with The Last Thing I Remember. He is also a
screenwriter and scripted the innovative movie-in-an-app Haunting
Melissa.
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