Snuff Tag 9 (Nicholas Colt)

When an affluent young accountant receives a threatening letter — a mandate to come and play an ultraviolent video game called Snuff Tag 9 — he hires rock-star-turned-PI Nicholas Colt to find answers. Colt assumes the letter is a scam, but a four-hundred-pound psychopath known only as Freeze quickly proves him wrong.Freeze, it seems, is populating his version of the game with real people.Kidnapped and outfitted with a device that will stop his heart if he refuses to compete, Colt suddenly finds himself one of nine players in an outrageous game of attrition. One of nine pawns captured and manipulated for the perverse entertainment of a sadistic billionaire. And the only way for Colt to survive is to kill the other eight.

Nicholas Colt’s career as a lead guitarist ended with a crushed hand, and his career as a licensed private investigator ended with a narcotics conviction. Since then, he’s had some luck making money under the table as a “security consultant.” But good luck has a habit of going bad for Colt. Like when he takes the case of an affluent young accountant who has received a threatening letter—a mandate to come and play an ultraviolent video game called Snuff Tag 9.

Colt figures the letter is a scam, but a psychotic four-hundred- pound billionaire known only as Freeze quickly proves him wrong. Freeze, it seems, is populating his version of the game with real people.

Kidnapped and outfitted with a device that will stop his heart if he refuses to join in, Colt finds himself deep in the Okefenokee Swamp hunting—and being hunted by—eight people he has never met, has nothing against…and must kill to survive.