Sean A.P. Ryan has spent the last year in Italy, keeping his head down and his mouth shut. But he has been brought out of his exile for one big job: security at the world's largest science fiction convention, WyvernCon. His mission is to keep the peace between two factions warring over the "coveted" Hubble Awards -- the Tearful Puppies and the Puppy Punters. Even though Sean has a bad feeling about it, he takes the job, expecting a relatively quiet weekend.
Unfortunately, Sean soon learns that he has an internet bounty on his head. Every bounty hunter and mercenary within shouting is descending on the convention, each of them set on killing him.
If that wasn't bad enough, the first casualties of the Puppy War happen at the convention. Could it have been one of the Puppies, who are all armed and dangerous? Or could it have been one of the Punters, who claim pacifist tendencies, and fanatical devotion to their cause?
With the bodies piling up, and the attacks becoming more frequent, Sean has to discover who wants him dead, and who the true Puppy killer is, before all of WyvernCon goes down in flames.
Unfortunately, Sean soon learns that he has an internet bounty on his head. Every bounty hunter and mercenary within shouting is descending on the convention, each of them set on killing him.
If that wasn't bad enough, the first casualties of the Puppy War happen at the convention. Could it have been one of the Puppies, who are all armed and dangerous? Or could it have been one of the Punters, who claim pacifist tendencies, and fanatical devotion to their cause?
With the bodies piling up, and the attacks becoming more frequent, Sean has to discover who wants him dead, and who the true Puppy killer is, before all of WyvernCon goes down in flames.