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The year is 2037, and on the island of Isola, seven people have been selected to participate in a competition 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. Anna is not actually a candidate for the position: she´s the test itself. Her assignment is to stage her own death and then observe how others react to the news a murderer is among them. It´s going to plan until a storm rolls in, the power goes out, and the real game begins.

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"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, New York Times bestselling author of The Expats

"Agatha Christie meets George Orwell in journalist Avdic´s unsettling first novel. . . . Avdic not only constructs a fascinating and original plot but makes her imagined reality chillingly plausible." -Publishers Weekly, starred review

"A high-stakes test of survival and betrayal . . . Agatha Christie´s And Then There Were None crossed-pollinated with ´The Most Dangerous Game´ . . . An unsettling portrait of our possible future." -Kirkus Reviews

"An Orwellian debut novel that never lets up . . . A heady mix of And Then There Were None and The Hunger Games [and] a supremely competitive struggle for survival." -Booklist

"Intriguing . . . Reminiscent of classic ´locked room´ mysteries by writers like Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers and P. D. James. But its near-future setting and Orwellian setup make it feel almost chillingly forward-looking as well." -Bookreporter

"With a scary dystopia core and a foreboding that lurks on every page, this is terrifying stuff." -Heat

"Resembling Agatha Christie at her zaniest, this fascinating, ever-changing scenario is deftly and grippingly handled." -The Sunday Times (London)

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Asa Avdic is a journalist who for years was a presenter for Swedish Public Service Radio and Television and is currently a host of Sweden´s biggest morning current events program. She lives with her family in Stockholm, Sweden. The Dying Game is her first novel.

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