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The Code Is Mightier than the Sword

Name: The Code Is Mightier than the Sword
Rating: 4.46 (13 reviews)
Author: David A. Pontier

David A. Pontier March 25, 2025

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Synopsis

The CIA recruits Jason Hawthorne to play a new virtual reality MMORPG and recover a powerful magical crystal before criminals within the game can seize it. After he succeeds, his friends are kidnapped, leaving him trapped in the game.

The kidnappers want the crystal, but as he levels up and adds a powerful wolf and a vampire to his party, his growing mastery of the game makes them want everything about him. He will confront giants, demons, orcs, hookers, and international terrorists all while trying to navigate a game he has never played before.

Ultimately, he will need to decide if the friends he’s made in the game are as important as those he has in real life.

“The Code is Mightier than the Sword” is a LitRPG that fuses elements from The Matrix, fantasy role-playing, Mission Impossible, and The Bourne Identity to produce an action-packed adventure that keeps you guessing from start to finish.

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