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The Kartoss Gambit

Way of the Shaman, Book 2

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The Kartoss Gambit

Written by: Vasily Mahanenko
Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
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A product of the latest technologies, Barliona is a virtual world brimming with fun and entertainment. The government has become the guarantor for the in-game currency, allowing its free circulation. As a result the population floods Barliona in pursuit of easy money.

It doesn't take long for the game developers to discover a source of free labor: real-world prison convicts. While their bodies are locked in special auto-maintenance virtual capsules, the prisoners' minds are released into Barliona's virtual mines.

Dmitry Mahan has been through it all. Sentenced to eight years' hard labor, he now struggles with an unpopular class - the Shaman - and an equally unpopular profession of a Jeweler. His fight for survival becomes anything but virtual.

©2015 V. Mahanenko. English translation copyright 2015 by Natalia Nikitin (P)2016 Tantor Adventure Cyberpunk Science Fiction
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The story got so much better in this book, but the way the VA voices the MC is just so hard to get past. Still, the finale was worth it.

Great book, average VA

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