Download or read book Victim Prime written by Robert Sheckley and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2092, the world's ecology is in ruins, drought and famine are widespread and survival is a never-ending challenge. Harold Erdman leaves his dying community with one goal, to make his way to Esmeralda, an island paradise run by the Huntworld Corporation which has turned public murder, among willing competitors, into a thriving and lucrative business. Can he survive the journey and then the many rounds of deadly competition on his way to the Big Payoff. His neighbours' lives, as well as his own, hang in the balance.