In the future you must earn citizenship through gladiator games. Case is the best, but is cheated and framed and kicked out. Now he has to find out why!

A silly old-school sci fi book that's more cheesy action than any real scifi. But, it is fast paced and the action stays interesting.

I'm more interested in the following two books that look like Hoskins has evolved as a writer and will further and perhaps better flesh out the character and world.

UPDATE: The next book, has nothing to do with this book. I can't really even see that it is 'in the same world' as this book. The writing is not much better and the story is another throwaway adventure masquerading as scifi. There is a third book in the series, but I don't know that I'll even bother. I've now read 3 Hoskins books and rated them all 2s. ( )