Are you game for a challenge? Will it be the dice or the gauntlet...? Rumours of a ship in the desert. Russian roulette with a checkmate ending. the powerful pull of a macumba moon. Revealing palindrome letters; gifts of excess and golden wishes; streets where the cobblestones rhyme; highway robberies in Mexico City and the Middle East. Strange experiences await you throughout this collection of wild, wicked and witty stories. Meet a Swiss clerk bankrolling a future with greener pasture, a drug addict trading his vice for evil, and a self-made millionaire hunting for pleasures that money can buy. Enter a killing game making it into the Internet age, join a confidence game in which the con man gets trapped in his own device, and sit in on a hilarious movie pre-production meeting that ends in disaster. As if this is not enough, Kim Ekemar will demonstrate how the challenge of storing our memories for posterity is solved in the future. He will also take you back 3000 years and in flashbacks show you why the essence of war is a game that never changes... So, what will it be - the dice or the gauntlet?