Life has not been kind to Andy.  With little to live for and at the end of his rope, a stranger offers him a deal to enter a competition with life and deaths stakes in a series of games against other gamers, he doesn't hesitate to accept.  After all the prize for winning is enough to turn everything around for him.Authors note - WARNING, spoilers ahead:The first game played is a hardcore engineering focused space survival.  So stay away, if that's not your sort of thing.