The Ghost In the Racket

von Phishstones

180 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Leo "Leviathan" Petrova thought he understood VR tennis.He understood the speed. The angles. The exhaustion. The trash talk. The strange magic of putting on a headset in an ordinary room and, seconds later, standing beneath the lights of a packed virtual stadium with thousands of people watching.Then he sees a shot that should not exist.One impossible swing changes everything.What begins as suspicion becomes an obsession as Leo discovers that something is wrong inside the competitive world he loves. Matches no longer feel like matches. Victories become evidence. Defeats become questions. Friends begin doubting friends. Players disappear behind usernames, rumors spread faster than facts, and nobody can tell where skill ends and deception begins.The deeper Leo searches, the more dangerous the truth becomes.Because the ghost isn't just hiding in the game.It is hiding inside the people playing it.As Leo is pulled through high-pressure tournaments, broken friendships, secret conversations, accusations, betrayals, and a championship that could change everything, he is forced to confront a brutal question:What happens to a sport when the players stop believing the person across the net is playing by the same rules?The Ghost in the Racket V2 is a fast, dark VR-tennis thriller about competition, obsession, trust, technology, and the thin line between wanting to win and needing to win.But beneath the mystery is something more human: players escaping ordinary life for an hour or two, putting on a headset, grabbing a virtual racket, and becoming somebody else.Some play for fun.Some play for friendship.Some play because competition makes them feel alive again.And some will do almost anything to win.Leo wants the truth.He may wish he had never found it.From PhishStones comes a completely reimagined, story-driven edition of The Ghost in the Racket, leading into the next chapter of the saga-Phantom Ace-and toward a new virtual court: ACE VR.The headset goes on.Reality disappears.And somewhere across the net, the ghost is waiting.

• Themen: Informatik und Informationstechnologie Verbraucher- und Benutzerhandbücher Strategiehandbücher / Begleitwerke
• ISBN: 9798232356545
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 28.08.2025
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: PhishStones