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Frank, no ordinary sixteen-year-old, lives with his father outsIde a remote Scottish village. Their life is, to say the least, unconventional. Frank's mother abandoned them years ago: his elder brother Eric is confined to a psychiatric hospital; and his father measures out his eccentricities on an imperial scale.

The Player of Games written by Iain M. Banks performed by Peter Kenny on CD (Unabridged)

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ISBN: 9781445007670
Genre - Main: Fiction
Genre - Specific: Sci-Fi
Duration: 685 mins
Length: Unabridged
Author: Iain M. Banks
Performer 1: Peter Kenny
Rarity: Extremely Rare

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The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh. Jernau Morat Gurgeh.

The Player of Games. Master of every board, computer and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel and incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game ... a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor. Mocked, blackmailed, almost murdered, Gurgeh accepts the game, and with it the challenge of his life - and very possibly his death.

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