The Theory of Games

Read The Theory of Games Storyline:

"The
Theory of Games is an off-the-Scoville Scale debut thriller from
sometime-Pentagon consultant and fulltime bluesman Ezra Sidran. By turns
(and, often, all at once) funny, smart and scary, Sidran takes us on a
broken-field run through the underbelly of the military-industrial complex -
where even the wargames - especially the wargames - are played for keeps."- Jim
Hougan (a/k/a John Case, "The
Genesis Code",
"The
First Horseman",
"The
Murder Artist",
"Ghost
Dancer",
"The
Eighth Day",
"The
Syndrome",
also under his own name, "Secret
Agenda",
"Kingdom
Come"
and "Spooks")



Jakob Grant, formerly a top-selling
computer game designer, is now down on his luck and barely hanging on teaching
at an exclusive private college. His best friend is a 135-pound
Rottweiler-German Shepherd dog named Bill who has been implanted with the
CardioTronic 413 pacemaker (the ‘Dick Cheney' model). When Jakob is fired from
his teaching position he reluctantly accepts an unusual offer to work on a 3D
military simulation; but there is something about the Major General that hired
him that doesn’t appear to be right...