<p><b>A Goodreads Choice Award finalist.</b></p><p><b>“I enjoyed the hell out of <i>One Word Kill</i>. Mark is an excellent writer.” – George R.R. Martin</b></p><p>In January 1986, fifteen-year-old boy-genius Nick Hayes discovers he’s dying. And it isn’t even the strangest thing to happen to him that week.</p><p>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 strange—yet curiously familiar—man is following Nick, with abilities that just shouldn’t exist. And this man bears a cryptic message: Mia’s in grave danger, though she doesn’t know it yet. She needs Nick’s help—now.</p><p>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.</p><p>Challenge accepted.</p><p><b><i>Ready Player One</i> meets <i>Stranger Things</i> in this new novel by bestselling author Mark Lawrence.</b></p>