The Challenger

By Joshua Caleb Brown

The future world is different from ours. Citizens work long hours for little pay and have houses, food and transportation rationed out to them according to their status. The Hybrid fighting games, a yearly sports event, is the only entertainment left. Citizens use their little extra money to bet on the games. The greatest thing they want for their children is to watch them sit as the hybrid fighting Champion. Adam Merrick , a teenager in the West of the continent, is a rare case: He dislikes the hybrid games, would never dream of being in them, and is ridiculed and taunted because of it. While attending a drawing to determine who would become the last challenger--one of sixteen who would fight in the season--he, Adam Merrick, is picked to be the last fighter. He can't believe it. Nor can his parents or his schoolmates. Now all he has to do is pick two to four animals to make into a hybrid, learn to become that hybrid, train to fight as a never-before-seen animal, travel to the Arena dome, where, after extensive training and coaching, he will fight fifteen other contenders and, if he triumphs, will battle the current Champion, Ryan Clawman. Though Ryan is in trouble for killing three opponents last season, he still sits as hybrid fighting Champion, and is determined to maintain a grasp on his title. Can Adam hope to accomplish all these things, or will his story end in tragedy?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0D79PT7QF
• ISBN13: 9798884137578
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.9" x 6.0"