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|title=The Games

|sort=Games

|publisher=Titan

|date=June 2012

|website=http://www.tedkosmatka.com

|video=RFHEZqzTpew

|summary=An exciting science fiction thriller that's also a new take on Frankenstein's monster. The white knuckle second half more than makes up for the predictability of the first, but not a book for the queasy.

}}

It's the near future and the Olympics go on, but not without changes. A new event has been added to those that we'd recognise: genetically engineered gladiatorial combat. This is no holds barred competition, with one rule: each country's gladiator must be devoid of any human DNA. Indeed, America is so good that their team has won all the last three games' golds, thanks to geneticist Dr Silas Williams, but this year is different. This year he has nothing to do with the design; someone sent a single design criterion to an experimental intelligence computer. (You just know that was a bad idea day don't you?) The design criteria is just one sentence, just words, but words can be misunderstood and misunderstanding can be devastating for more than just genetically manufactured gladiators.