How to Play — Matt Forbeck

Welcome to the Big Show!

Once a year, the greatest tabletop gamers in the world descend upon Indianapolis for Gen Con -- the Best Four Days in Gaming -- to play games, see friends, and have fun. They play things like Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Warhammer 40,000, Settlers of Catan, Munchkin, and everything else they can get their hands on. Mostly the competition is friendly.

Sometimes it is not.

When a world-famous game designer turns up murdered at the convention, Liam Parker -- the young game designer who stumbles across the body -- makes it his quest to figure out who killed the man, and why. In the end, Liam must figure out the rules of this most dangerous game fast -- or risk losing his life.

How to Play is the first novel in the Dangerous Games series.