num_pages: 340
description: 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 waralong with twenty other survivorswho becomes obsessed with identifying a murderer in their midst after the body of a young girl is discovered in one of the hotels water tanks.Jon thought he had all the time in the world to respond to his wifes text message: I miss you so much. I feel bad about how we left it. Love you. But as hes waiting in the lobby of the LHotel 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. Thats all he knows before news outlets and social media goes blackand 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 cant 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 hotels 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?
language: English
title: The Last
publisher: Atria Books