Most people didn't make it to Cell Six, he said. Most called out the safe word - reprieve - after the first Cell. It was that intense. 

When Bryan, Jaidee, Victor and Jane team up to compete at a full-contact escape room, it seems simple. Hold your nerve through six terrifying challenges; collect all the red envelopes; win a huge cash prize. 

But the real horror is unfolding outside of the game, in a series of deceits and misunderstandings fuelled by obsession and prejudice. And by the end of the night, one of the contestants will be dead.

INTRODUCING A NEW LITERARY STAR
***JAMES HAN MATTSON***
OCTOBER 2021

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'An eventual American classic' - KIESE LAYMON

'Reprieve takes horror as its subject, while also using the genre as its means, delivering twists and fright and the kind of storytelling that keeps you turning pages' RUMAAN ALAM

'A timely, devastating story about intersecting lives drawn to a dark and frightening place . . . Reprieve is the rare novel that will make your heart pound with terror while it aches with grief' JUNG YUN

'Surprising and spellbinding, a page-turner that keeps you guessing right until the explosive end' T. GERONIMO JOHNSON