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Ballantine Books
July 2016
On Sale: July 12, 2016
Featuring: Zoo
304 pages
ISBN: 1101965088
EAN: 9781101965085
Kindle: B016TG5RKG
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Science Fiction Suspense/Thriller
Survival is the name of the game as the line blurs between reality TV and reality itself in Alexandra Olivaโs fast-paced novel of suspense. She wanted an adventure. She never imagined it would go this far. It begins with a reality TV show. Twelve contestants are sent into the woods to face challenges that will test the limits of their endurance. While they are out there, something terrible happensโbut how widespread is the destruction, and has it occurred naturally or is it man-made? Cut off from society, the contestants know nothing of it. When one of themโa young woman the showโs producers call Zooโstumbles across the devastation, she can imagine only that it is part of the game. Alone and disoriented, Zoo is heavy with doubt regarding the lifeโand husbandโshe left behind, but she refuses to quit. Staggering countless miles across unfamiliar territory, Zoo must summon all her survival skillsโand learn new ones as she goes. But as her emotional and physical reserves dwindle, she grasps that the real world might have been altered in terrifying waysโand her ability to parse the charade will be either her triumph or her undoing. Sophisticated and provocative, THE LAST ONE is a novel that forces us to confront the role that media plays in our perception of what is real: how readily we cast our judgments, how easily we are manipulated.
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