In the near future, you don't live to play... you'll play to live.
Mind-control technology has taken society by a storm, a multiplayer on-line game called "Slayers" allows players to control human prisoners in mass-scale. Simon controls Kable, the online champion of the game. Kable's ultimate challenge becomes regaining his identity and independence by defeating the game's mastermind.
mind control
prisoner
video game
dystopia
gun battle
wrongful imprisonment
wrongful conviction
online gaming
2030s
death game
not too distant future