SHOOT 'EM UP! The Craziest Game in the World (by Glorian Ray) on amazon

A humorous novel about a caravan journey through Africa and South Asia by four online gamers and a giant tortoise: Emma, the ugly but buxom Swiss; Piero, the good-goody, not too bright Italian; Zach, the skinny and tech-savvy Brit; and Gunter, who is fat, anarchist and German.

A series of mishaps and escapes from near fatal disasters brought on by the group's nutty tournament, a real-life shoot 'em up played against people and animals with a score set for each victim!

The daring Europeans suffer and endure in pure 'survival' mode till the final day of their journey, meeting in the various realistic settings an assortment of crazy and weird characters, products of a recently decadent society and failed globalization.

English edition forthcoming, Italian available