A masterly locked-room mystery set in a near-future Orwellian state-for fans of Margaret
Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale Dave Eggers' The Circle and Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games Do
you live to play? Or play to live? The year is 2037. The Soviet Union never fell and much of
Europe has been consolidated under the totalitarian Union of Friendship. 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. 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?
