The Eye of Minds (Mortality Doctrine 1)

Resumen del libro

"The Eye of Minds" is the first book in The Mortality Doctrine series set in a world of hyperadvanced technology, cyberterrorists, and gaming beyond your wildest dreams . . . and your worst nightmares.
Michael is a gamer. And like most gamers, he almost spends more time on the VirtNet than in the actual world. The VirtNet offers total mind and body immersion, and it's addictive. Thanks to technology, anyone with enough money can experience fantasy worlds, risk their life without the chance of death, or just hang around with Virt-friends. And the more hacking skills you have, the more fun. Why bother following the rules when most of them are dumb, anyway?
But some rules were made for a reason. Some technology is too dangerous to fool with. And recent reports claim that one gamer is going beyond what any gamer has done before: he's holding players hostage inside the VirtNet. The effects are horrific--the hostages have all been declared brain-dead. Yet the gamer's motives are a mystery.
The government knows that to catch a hacker, you need a hacker. And they've been watching Michael. They want him on their team. But the risk is enormous. If he accepts their challenge, Michael will need to go off the VirtNet grid. There are back alleys and corners in the system human eyes have never seen and predators he can't even fathom--and there's the possibility that the line between game and reality will be blurred forever.

Biografía del autor

James Dashner (Georgia, 1972) cosechó un éxito mundial con la novela El corredor del laberinto (Nocturna, 2010), primera parte de una serie homónima seguida de Las pruebas (Nocturna, 2011), La cura mortal (Nocturna, 2013), El Destello (Nocturna, 2014), El corredor del laberinto: Información clasificada (Nocturna, 2015), El código de CRUEL (Nocturna, 2016) y El Palacio de los Raros (Nocturna, 2021). El corredor del laberinto se ha traducido a más de 40 idiomas, es superventas en muchos países y las tres primeras entregas se han llevado al cine por la 20th Century Fox con gran éxito de taquilla. Tras adentrarse en el género del thriller con La Casa de las Lenguas (Nocturna, 2023), James Dashner se ha embarcado en una nueva serie que transcurre en el mundo de El corredor del laberinto y cuyo primer tomo es El barco del laberinto (Nocturna, 2024).