A Masterly Locked-room Mystery Set In A Near-future Orwellian State. The Year Is 2037, And On The Tiny Island Of Isola, Seven People Have Been Selected To Compete In A Forty-eight-hour Test For A Top-secret Intelligence Position With The Totalitarian Union Of Friendship. One Of Them Is Anna Francis, A Workaholic Bureaucrat With A Nine-year-old Daughter She Rarely Sees And A Secret That Haunts Her. Her Assignment: To Stage Her Own Death And Then To Observe, From Her Hiding Place Inside The Walls Of The House, How The Six Other Candidates React To The News That A Murderer Is Among Them. Who Will Take Control? Who Will Crack Under Pressure? But Then A Storm Rolls In, The Power Goes Out, And The Real Game Begins. Combining Suspense, Unexpected Twists, Psychological Gamesmanship, And A Sinister Dystopian Future, The Dying Game Conjures A World In Which One Woman Is Forced To Ask, Can I Save My Life By Staging My Death?-- Asa Avdic ; Translated By Rachel Willson-broyles. Originally Published In Swedish As Isola By Natur & Kultur, Stockholm--verso Title Page.
Categories:
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Science Fiction
- Dystopian
- Science Fiction
Publisher : Penguin Books
Author : Avdic, Asa
Language : English
Edition : First Edition
Published :2017-08-03
Number Of Pages : 288
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 0143131796
ISBN-13 : 9780143131793
Item weight : 0.5 lb
Dimensions : 0.79 in x 4.88 in x 7.72 in
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