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The body of a teenage girl found in mountain forest two hundred miles from her home. The corpse of a young man in the Nevada desert, his heart and eyes removed. The post-apocalyptic world of a role-playing video game, created by a man driven by delusions of superhuman supremacy. And rookie detective Summer Ziegler, pitched headlong into her first major case. But while Summer tries to unpick the killer's twisted logic, he lures her into a cat-and-mouse game with a spectacular climax of his own devising . . . 'Jaw-droppingly good.' Michael Marshall 'In the footsteps of Lee Child and John Connolly.' Independent on Sunday 'A truly suspenseful plot.' Irish Independent 'McAuley has dragged the cyber-thriller firmly into the twenty-first century.' Daily Mirror