[Paradise Clash 01] • Paradise Clash · Bounty Hunter

Jake Camden is an urban hunter. He finds fugitives, the missing, the lost,

stalking his prey through the toxic slums and glittering corporate monoliths

of a near-future Philadelphia. His new clients want him to find their missing

son, Trevor. The problem? They know exactly where his body is, comatose and on

life support.

His mind is missing.

Trevor logged into a virtual-reality role-playing game, the cultural

phenomenon called Paradise Clash…and vanished, disappearing from the grid,

trapped somewhere inside the simulation. The developers say it’s a one-

in-a-trillion glitch. Jake isn’t so sure; he knows an abduction when he sees

one.

The company wants it hushed up to avoid a media panic. The family just wants

their kid back. To crack the case, Jake Camden will have to leave the world

he’s used to, trading back-alley dives and acid rain for the bright blue skies

of a fantasy paradise. Elves, dragon-hunting cults, airships and sorcery —

it’s nothing the hard-nosed detective has ever had to face.

He’ll need new tools, new methods, and new allies, including a gregarious

dwarven warrior and a shrewd merchant queen, to find Trevor and bring him home

alive. But as mysteries mount and people begin to die in the real world, Jake

realizes he’s standing on the edge of something bigger than a single

abduction. A criminal conspiracy is unfolding, one with global consequences,

and he may be the only man standing in its path.