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Warcross

  • 416 pages · about 7 hours
  • First published 2017
  • 18 editions

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1 About this book

Warcross is a young adult science fiction novel by Marie Lu, which was published on September 17, 2017 by G.P. Putnam's Sons. Warcross is the first book in the duology of the same name, set in a cyberpunk future, New Yorker 18-year-old Emika Chen works as a "hunter" (a kind of bounty hunter) who earns her living making arrests for minor crimes. She is handpicked by billionaire Hideo Tanaka, creator of the virtual reality combat game Warcross to go to the game's world championship in Tokyo to investigate a security breach.

The sequel, Wildcard, was released on September 18, 2018.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Good for readers who want: science fiction and spy fiction.

  • Computer crimes
  • Science fiction
  • Spy stories
  • Internet games
  • Hackers
  • Bounty hunters
  • Spies
  • Computer games

2 About Marie Lu

Born 1984

Marie Lu (born 11 July 1984; born Xiwei Lu, Chinese: 陸希未) is an American young adult science fiction and fantasy author. She is best known for the Legend series, novels set in a dystopian and militarized future, as well as the Young Elites series, the Warcross series, and Batman: Nightwalker in the DC Icons series.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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