The Tenth Victim — Robert Sheckley

KILL OR DIE!

In the future, the Hunt has become humanity's perfect way to control human aggression. Anyone with the killer instinct can register for the Hunt and be computer-matched alternately as Hunter and Victim, stalking an opponent till the ultimate confrontation leaves only one survivor to collect the prize money and slay again.

Four times Caroline Meredith has Hunted successfully, five times as Victim she's claimed a pursuer's life. Now Caroline is about to seek her tenth and final legal kill. But never has she faced a Victim like Marcello. And never has the world witnessed a Hunt like this, a Hunt that will lead from a bizarre sun worshipers' ritual to a confrontation in Rome's Colosseum more spectacular than any since the time of the gladiators...