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A Goodreads Choice Award finalist.
?I enjoyed the hell out of One Word Kill. Mark is an excellent writer.? ? George R.R. Martin
In January 1986, fifteen-year-old boy-genius Nick Hayes discovers he?s dying. And it isn?t even the strangest thing to happen to him that week.
Nick and his Dungeons & Dragons-playing friends are used to living in their imaginations. But when a new girl, Mia, joins the group and reality becomes weirder than the fantasy world they visit in their weekly games, none of them are prepared for what comes next. A strange?yet curiously familiar?man is following Nick, with abilities that just shouldn?t exist. And this man bears a cryptic message: Mia?s in grave danger, though she doesn?t know it yet. She needs Nick?s help?now.
He finds himself in a race against time to unravel an impossible mystery and save the girl. And all that stands in his way is a probably terminal disease, a knife-wielding maniac and the laws of physics.
Challenge accepted.
Ready Player One meets Stranger Things in this new novel by bestselling author Mark Lawrence.