End Game

Tom Clancy's Net Force Explorers #6

by Diane Duane, Tom Clancy (Series Creator), Steve Pieczenik (Series Creator)

Xanadu... une île merveilleuse des Caraïbes qu'un programmateur de génie a transformée en paradis du monde virtuel. Là, les simulations, taillées sur mesure, vous font vivre des émotions d'une formidable intensité avec lesquelles rien ne peut rivaliser. Hélas, un pirate s'empare de l'identité virtuelle des richissimes clients pendant qu'ils sont en villégiature. Bien vite, les petites farces du début prennent des proportions titanesques. Pour que ce paradis ne se transforme pas en enfer, au risque de déclencher une guerre internationale, on doit absolument mettre fin à ce petit manège. Sous prétexte d'accompagner son père, auteur de romans policiers, qui doit animer un atelier d'écriture, Megan O'Malley, jeune Exploratrice de la Net Force, réussit à se faire inviter dans ce monde privilégié. Armée de l'aide logistique de ses camarades de la Net Force, elle n'hésite pas à s'introduire au cœur du système pour en percer les moindres secrets. Pourtant, même en réalité virtuelle, on n'est pas à l'abri des attaques de l'ennemi, surtout lorsque ce dernier est capable de s'introduire dans votre cerveau et de contrôler toutes vos émotions !

Genres: Fiction, Thriller, Action, Young Adult, Adventure

256 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1999

About the author

Diane Duane has been a writer of science fiction, fantasy, TV and film for more than forty years.

Besides the 1980's creation of the Young Wizards fantasy series for which she's best known, the "Middle Kingdoms" epic fantasy series, and numerous stand-alone fantasy or science fiction novels, her career has included extensive work in the Star Trek TM universe, and many scripts for live-action and animated TV series on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as work in comics and computer games. She has spent a fair amount of time on the New York Times Bestseller List, and has picked up various awards and award nominations here and there.

She lives in County Wicklow, in Ireland, with her husband of more than thirty years, the screenwriter and novelist Peter Morwood.

Her favorite color is blue, her favorite food is a weird kind of Swiss scrambled-potato dish called maluns, she was born in a Year of the Dragon, and her sign is "Runway 24 Left, Hold For Clearance."

(From her official website)

Reviews

[Jeroen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun quick read set in the near future in the same universe as Tom Clancy's Net Force. The series focusses on teens that are part of a group that is affiliated to the FBI's internet division, Net Force.
The book is about Megan O'malley who inserts herself, with Net Force's approval, into the investigation about online identity theft resulting in serious damage. For the investigation Megan and her father travel to a luxury island resort to investigate which of the staff of the resort is responsible for the thefts.
It's a short and simple book but quite fun. Megan's investigation results in very little, and she needs the help of the son of one of the victims as well as Mark Gridley to finalise the investigation. Mark Gridley is the son of Jay Gridley from the main Net Force series but some of the details do not align, e.g. the name of Mark's mother and his age.

[John · Rating 3 out of 5]

Follows the same basic formula as the previous NET FORCE novels written by Diane Duane. She begins with a mysterious event, then spends most of the book fleshing out the exotic backdrop against which the Net Force investigation is taking place. Whereas her previous books revolved around virtual environments, END GAME mostly takes place in the real world, at a futuristic island resort called Xanadu. It actually makes for a great setting, but all the time spent exploring the resort's technology and operations never really pays off the way it ought to. Instead, we are given a very perfunctory resolution that could've just as easily taken place 100 pages earlier, had there not been a minimum word count Ms. Duane needed to reach.

[Lorenzo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Strani furti che fanno tutti uso di tecnologia avanzata e furti di identità hanno tutti in comunque il fatto di avere come vittime i facoltosi ospiti di un villaggio vip costruito su una isola tropicale.
Una ragazza dei Net Force Explorers, con la scusa di accompagnare il padre scrittore durante una serie di suoi seminari su questa isola, inizierà una serie di indagini per scovare chi si cela dietro questi crimini.

[Miguel Neto]

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[Allen G]

only 100 pages in. I was at the airport and I decided to get it cuz I forgot my other book. It is good to see him back to some better material. Lately Clancy has gotton to formulaic and I was bored of him.

[Jim · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting story, but sometimes a bit hard to understand, who is where (vr, net, real life ) but for the rest it was good to read