Paradise Clash: Bounty Hunter (Paradise Clash #1) by L.E. Price

SPFBO6

Jake Camden is an urban hunter. He finds fugitives, the missing, the lost, stalking his prey through the toxic slums and glittering corporate monoliths of a near-future Philadelphia. His new clients want him to find their missing son, Trevor. The problem? They know exactly where his body is, comatose and on life support. His mind is missing. Trevor logged into a virtual-reality role-playing game, the cultural phenomenon called Paradise Clash…and vanished, disappearing from the grid, trapped somewhere inside the simulation. The developers say it’s a one-in-a-trillion glitch. Jake isn’t so sure; he knows an abduction when he sees one. The company wants it hushed up to avoid a media panic. The family just wants their kid back. To crack the case, Jake Camden will have to leave the world he’s used to, trading back-alley dives and acid rain for the bright blue skies of a fantasy paradise. Elves, dragon-hunting cults, airships and sorcery — it’s nothing the hard-nosed detective has ever had to face. He’ll need new tools, new methods, and new allies, including a gregarious dwarven warrior and a shrewd merchant queen, to find Trevor and bring him home alive. But as mysteries mount and people begin to die in the real world, Jake realizes he’s standing on the edge of something bigger than a single abduction. A criminal conspiracy is unfolding, one with global consequences, and he may be the only man standing in its path.

Adult • Fantasy/LitRPG