When an affluent young accountant receives a threatening letter a mandate to come and play an ultraviolent video game called Snuff Tag 9 he hires rock-star-turned-PI Nicholas Colt to find answers. Colt assumes the letter is a scam, but a four-hundred-pound psychopath known only as Freeze quickly proves him wrong. Freeze, it seems, is populating his version of the game with real people. Kidnapped and outfitted with a device that will stop his heart if he refuses to compete, Colt suddenly finds himself one of nine players in an outrageous game of attrition. One of nine pawns captured and manipulated for the perverse entertainment of a sadistic billionaire. And the only way for Colt to survive is to kill the other eight."