β Scribed by Mark Lawrence
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Ready Player One meets Stranger Things in this new novel by the bestselling author who George RR Martin describes as an excellent writer.
In January 1986, fifteen-year-old boy-genius Nick Hayes discovers hes dying. And it isnt even the strangest thing to happen to him that week.
Nick and his Dungeons & Dragons-playing friends are used to living in their imaginations. But when a new girl, Mia, joins the group and reality becomes weirder than the fantasy world they visit in their weekly games, none of them are prepared for what comes next. A strangeyet curiously familiarman is following Nick, with abilities that just shouldnt exist. And this man bears a cryptic message: Mias in grave danger, though she doesnt know it yet. She needs Nicks helpnow.
He finds himself in a race against time to unravel an impossible mystery and save the girl. And all that stands in his way is a probably terminal disease, a knife-wielding maniac and the laws of physics.
Challenge accepted.
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An excellent writer. George R.R. Martin
One Word Kill is the kind of story that will stay with you for a lifetime. Robin Hobb, New York Times bestselling author
A completely absorbing tale that perfectly captures the fear, awkwardness, cynicism, and optimism of adolescence. Anthony Ryan, New York Times bestselling author of *The Legion of Flame*
One Word Kill grabs hold of you and wont let you go until youve finished the last page. Its everything that I look for in a book, and like the best of reads, one that stays with you long after youve finished reading it. John Gwynne, author of The Faithful and the Fallen series
Before becoming an author, Mark Lawrence was a research scientist for twenty years, working on artificial intelligence. He is a dual national, with both British and American citizenship, and has held secret-level clearance with both governments. At one point, he was qualified to say, This isnt rocket scienceoh wait, it actually is.
He is the author of the Broken Empire trilogy (Prince of Thorns, King of Thorns and Emperor of Thorns), the Red Queens War trilogy (Prince of Fools, The Liars Key and The Wheel of Osheim) and the Book of the Ancestor series (Red Sister, Grey Sister and Holy Sister).
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