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Informationen zum Autor Jordan Cray is the author of Gemini7, a Simon & Schuster book. Klappentext //WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE/The Internet...a world without rules, without boundaries. Where you can be anyone you want, whoever you aren't. And it's all just a click away....Riley Tulane is a member of a chat room called The Six. Made up entirely of acting students, this group -- four guys and two girls -- decides to meet at a secluded Vermont inn before heading to a prestigious drama seminar in New York City.Nothing is more idyllic than a long winter weekend in the Green Mountains. Then suddenly, one member of The Six is found dead. How far can one actor's ambitions for stardom go? Will the curtain fall on this weekend before another person dies?Different people in different places. The one thing they have in common is a new address on the Internet: danger.com. Where all your fears come true.Other tales you won't want to miss:Gemini7Hot Pursult Bad IntentFirestormStalkerMost WantedShadow Man Dead Man's Hand Chapter: 1//dreamers Okay. Here's the situation. I'm going to be totally up front with you, except in the places where I might lie a little to make myself look better. What can I say? I'm an actor. You think Al Pacino is really five feet nine? Say you're chatting online with a group of buddies for about a year. Say you develop a crush on one of the girls. Say the crush is of the major, heart-wrenching variety. Say in order to impress said girl, you perhaps exaggerate your good qualities, maybe even make a few of them up. Then say said girl says: Let's meet! You see my problem. I pinned the printout of the e-mail to the bulletin board in my room. When I have a tough call, I like to make face with it. It makes me feel macho and decisive. If only I weren't so nervous. If only I knew what to do. I had formed the chat group with four of my buddies from drama camp last summer. Dudley Firth, Ethan Viner, Wilson MacDougal, and I had become friends when we'd realized we were the best actors at camp. Sure, there were other guys who'd thought the same thing. The difference was, we were right. You might imagine that a drama camp in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts would be a great place to meet girls, and you'd be right. But except for Ethan, we all were big strikeouts in the babe department. When it came to confidence, we had it onstage. Offstage, we tended to turn into overcooked linguine in the presence of the opposite sex. Or else we'd hang around in a clump, telling bad jokes and insulting each other while laughing really loudly so that the girls would think we were having such a good time, we didn't need them at all. Do girls see through that one? Don't tell me the truth. Let me have my illusions. Do you have any idea what it's like to be surrounded by beautiful actresses and never get up the courage to snag a date? So at the end of August, we had a brainstorm. The camp newsletter listed everyone's e-mail address, and we wrote to the cutest girls and some of the cooler guys, inviting them to join an online chat group that would focus on theater. Great idea, right? Well, sort of. The problem was word of mouth. Our idea mushroomed until we had to split into a whole bunch of chat rooms. Some idiot suggested we divide by area, so I ended up in New England, since I go to boarding school in Massachusetts. Wilson, Ethan, and Dud live in New England, too, so they were in my group. In other words, we'd created a giant room to meet girls, and ended up talking to each other in the corner. Typical guy behavior, right? The New England group thinned out gradually, until it was down to fifteen. Maybe people dropped out because Wilson would be obnoxious, or because Dudley would write LOL (which means "laugh out loud," just in case you're not a Netizen) instead of an intelligent response until you're ready to scream. But two girls, TygrrEyz and Monarch99, hung in there. Othe...
