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The Last, April 2019
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Atria Books
April 2019
On Sale: April 9, 2019
352 pages
ISBN: 1501198823
EAN: 9781501198823
Kindle: B07GNTGXFL
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Thriller Terrorism | Dystopian
For fans of high-concept thrillers such as
Annihilation and The Girl with All the Gifts,
this breathtaking dystopian psychological thriller follows
an American academic stranded at a Swiss hotel as the world
descends into nuclear war—along with twenty other
survivors—who becomes obsessed with identifying a murderer
in their midst after the body of a young girl is discovered
in one of the hotel’s water tanks. Jon thought he had all the time in the world to respond to
his wife’s text message: I miss you so much. I feel bad
about how we left it. Love you. But as he’s waiting in
the lobby of the L’Hotel Sixieme in Switzerland after an
academic conference, still mulling over how to respond to
his wife, he receives a string of horrifying push
notifications. Washington, DC has been hit with a nuclear
bomb, then New York, then London, and finally Berlin. That’s
all he knows before news outlets and social media goes
black—and before the clouds on the horizon turn orange. Now, two months later, there are twenty survivors holed up
at the hotel, a place already tainted by its strange history
of suicides and murders. Those who can’t bear to stay commit
suicide or wander off into the woods. Jon and the others try
to maintain some semblance of civilization. But when the
water pressure disappears, and Jon and a crew of survivors
investigate the hotel’s water tanks, they are shocked to
discover the body of a young girl. As supplies dwindle and tensions rise, Jon becomes obsessed
with investigating the death of the little girl as a way to
cling to his own humanity. Yet the real question remains:
can he afford to lose his mind in this hotel, or should he
take his chances in the outside world?
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