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The dying game : a novel / Asa Avdic ; translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles.

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Penguin Books, 2017.

Women professional employees -- Fiction.

Intelligence service -- Fiction.

Psychological games -- Fiction.

Death -- Fiction.

Totalitarianism -- Fiction.

9780143131793 (trade pbk.)

0143131796 (trade pbk.)

Isola. English.

278 p. ; 20 cm.

"Originally published in Swedish as Isola by Natur & Kultur, Stockholm."--T.p. verso.

Translated from the Swedish.

"A masterly locked-room mystery set in a near-future Orwellian state. The year is 2037, and 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 with the totalitarian Union of Friendship. 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?"--From publisher.

Dystopian fiction.

Futuristic fiction.

Suspense fiction.

Psychological thriller.

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