Books involving skilled play, maybe gambling aspects, deception and mind-games. Basically characters should find themselves in high-stakes games.
Could you also suggest books where social deduction games (like Among Us, Werewolf etc.) would be a major part? Doesn’t need to be specifically a game, the plot itself could be such that it would resemble a social deduction game (“who’s the werewolf/traitor among us?”)
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