The Dying Game

‘Like a Swedish Hunger Games for adults.’ Skaraborgs L�ns Tidning ‘Agatha Christie meets George Orwell… a fascinating and original plot.’ Publishers Weekly ‘Full of unexpected twists and turns… The pages rush past � I can’t seem to be able to put the book down.� Sydsvenskan ‘A deliciously creepy novel revolving around a terrific paradigm shift: The job you think you�re doing? That�s not the job you�re really doing.’ Chris Pavone, author of the EXPATS �Oh, it�s really quite simple. I want you to play dead.�On the remote island of Isola, seven people have been selected to compete in a 48-hour test for a top-secret intelligence position. One of them is Anna Francis, a workaholic with a nine-year-old daughter she rarely sees, and a secret that haunts her. Her assignment is to stage her own death and then observe, from her hiding place inside the walls of the house, how the other candidates react to the news that a murderer is among them. Who will take control? Who will crack under pressure? But as soon as Anna steps on to the island she realises something isn�t quite right. And then a storm rolls in, the power goes out, and the real game begins�