Gameprey

'Net Force Explorers' is a brilliant high-tech adventure series created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik. In the year 2025 the Internet practically runs the world, and its virtual reality webwork has to be policed by Net Force to prevent terrorists from sabotaging it. But sometimes they need help. Which is where the Net Force Explorers come in, the young people's auxiliary for computer whiz-kids who have made it through a tough training programme. Maj Green's obsession with virtual reality flight simulators looks like it could be about to pay off. Her latest Striper program is the best she's ever designed - and she's hoping to interest a packager at the gaming exhibition she's attending. Until something extraordinary happens: putting the Striper through its paces in a final test-run, something appears in the sky that just shouldn't be there: a huge horned, scaly dragon - and it is breathing deadly fireballs. Suddenly Maj finds herself playing a very different sort of game - a deadly contest against an evil genius who thinks nothing of killing to achieve his ends.