Capes Online Omnibus, Books 1 - 3: The Player Blackout; The Player Plague; The Player Revolt

He didn't want to be in the game. Now he has to save it.
Killed on the first day on the job, 25-year-old police officer Nyle Maxwell finds his mind uploaded to Capes Online, the world's biggest and most popular VRMMORPG. Yet the one-way mind-to-game upload process means that Nyle can never return to his physical body. Now he must become a real superhero and protect Capes Online from both hostile players and malevolent AIs and NPCs alike that seek to destroy the game itself.