Sci-fi

The random factor

by Charles Eric Maine
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Description

Four Americans, all veterans of the Second World War and Korea, meet every week in a chic private club based on the ancient English model in New York. They have all now become established citizens with a serious profession and boredom is gradually taking over them. In the past, during the war, there was still something to do. Based on these recurring memories, they think of a terrible game. They divide the city into zones and in turn each person is assigned his hunting area with the dice. Someone has to be killed within that zone and the higher the risk level, the better the achievement. It takes an awfully long time before the police find out and make an eventual arrest...

What it’s like

ViolenceGraphic
CombatIncidental

Details

First published
March 1971
Pages
187
Reading time
About 4 hours
Format
Novel
Audience
Adult
Publisher
Hodder and Stoughton
Language
English
Series
Standalone

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