One Word Kill

About this book

A Goodreads Choice Award finalist. I enjoyed the hell out of One Word Kill. Mark is an excellent writer. George R.R. Martin 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. Ready Player One meets Stranger Things in this new novel by bestselling author Mark Lawrence.