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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 warβalong with twenty other survivorsβwho becomes obsessed with identifying a murderer in their midst after the body of a young girl is discovered in one of the hotelβs water tanks. Jon thought he had all the time in the world to respond to his wifeβs text message: I miss you so much. I feel bad about how we left it. Love you. But as heβs waiting in the lobby of the LβHotel 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. Thatβs all he knows before news outlets and social media goes blackβand 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 canβt 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 hotelβs 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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