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" Unger's] great at keeping you interested and not seeing all the twists that are coming with a fabulous cat-mouse game." --Sarah Michelle Gellar, Emmy-award winning actress
An extreme game of hide-and-seek turns deadly in this riveting new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger, the "queen of thrillers you can also discuss with your book club" (BookPage).
Charismatic daredevil and extreme adventurer Maverick Dillan invites you to the ultimate game of hide-and-seek. But as the players gather on Falcao Island, the event quickly spirals into a chilling test of survival. A storm rages as a deadly threat stalks the contestants, turning the challenge into something far more sinister than the social media stunt it was intended to be.
Enter Adele, a single mother with a fierce determination to protect her children at all costs. When she begins the game, she unwittingly enters a twisted web of deception and intrigue. Can she maneuver through the treacherous storm and the relentless competition and get home to her family? In a ruthless battle for survival where the stakes are higher than ever, the blurry line between the virtual and the real proves that the only person we can trust is ourselves.
Looking for more spine-tingling thrillers? Check out these other titles by New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger:
- Under My Skin
- The Stranger Inside
- Confessions on the 7:45
- Last Girl Ghosted
- Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six
- The New Couple in 5B
- Served Him Right
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780778333364
- ISBN-10: 0778333361
- Publisher: Park Row
- Publish Date: February 2025
- Dimensions: 9.16 x 6.38 x 1.17 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.06 pounds
- Page Count: 384
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Lisa Unger’s latest thriller, Close Your Eyes and Count to 10, features a livestreamed game of hide-and-seek with a $1 million prize. An abandoned resort called Enchantments offers plenty of places for contestants to hide on desolate Falcao Island. What could possibly go wrong? As one mysterious commenter and viewer says, “Has anything unstitched the fabric of our humanity more than the things that we have devised to entertain ourselves?”
As she did in books like Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six and The New Couple in 5B, bestselling author Unger ramps up a labyrinth of twists and turns from start to finish. There are only a handful of contestants, and readers will find themselves rooting for struggling mother Adele, who desperately needs the prize money to provide for her teenage son and daughter. Her son, Blake, is excited for his daredevil mom to meet host Maverick Dillon, whose manic zest for extreme adventure is fueled by his colossal ego. But both Maverick and Adele are haunted by missing people: Adele’s husband, Miller, embezzled money and abandoned both his company and family, making his wife and children the targets of community shame, while an influencer/contestant named Chloe Miranda disappeared during Maverick’s previous competition, prompting reams of sinister speculation.
“Real danger had not been part of Adele’s plan,” but that soon becomes unavoidable. Pages turn quickly as Unger’s snappy prose explores a multitude of viewpoints, creating a spiderweb of subplots that include the FBI’s investigation into Miller’s disappearance and the increasing financial, corporate and interpersonal pressures that threaten to destroy Maverick and his company. The dynamics between Adele and her children are the most compelling, and throughout, Unger explores the increasingly blurry lines that various characters navigate between the online and offline worlds. While Adele and her opponents search for strategic places to hide, the real hide-and-seek turns out to be the many secrets—including deadly ones—concealed by a number of the novel’s characters. The thrills are nonstop in Close Your Eyes and Count to 10, and while the many narrators occasionally result in a somewhat disjointed feel, the windmilling foci of attention accurately mirror today’s compulsive online experience.
Lisa Unger’s latest thriller, Close Your Eyes and Count to 10, features a livestreamed game of hide-and-seek with a $1 million prize. An abandoned resort called Enchantments offers plenty of places for contestants to hide on desolate Falcao Island. What could possibly go wrong? As one mysterious commenter and viewer says, “Has anything unstitched the fabric of our humanity more than the things that we have devised to entertain ourselves?”
As she did in books like Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six and The New Couple in 5B, bestselling author Unger ramps up a labyrinth of twists and turns from start to finish. There are only a handful of contestants, and readers will find themselves rooting for struggling mother Adele, who desperately needs the prize money to provide for her teenage son and daughter. Her son, Blake, is excited for his daredevil mom to meet host Maverick Dillon, whose manic zest for extreme adventure is fueled by his colossal ego. But both Maverick and Adele are haunted by missing people: Adele’s husband, Miller, embezzled money and abandoned both his company and family, making his wife and children the targets of community shame, while an influencer/contestant named Chloe Miranda disappeared during Maverick’s previous competition, prompting reams of sinister speculation.
“Real danger had not been part of Adele’s plan,” but that soon becomes unavoidable. Pages turn quickly as Unger’s snappy prose explores a multitude of viewpoints, creating a spiderweb of subplots that include the FBI’s investigation into Miller’s disappearance and the increasing financial, corporate and interpersonal pressures that threaten to destroy Maverick and his company. The dynamics between Adele and her children are the most compelling, and throughout, Unger explores the increasingly blurry lines that various characters navigate between the online and offline worlds. While Adele and her opponents search for strategic places to hide, the real hide-and-seek turns out to be the many secrets—including deadly ones—concealed by a number of the novel’s characters. The thrills are nonstop in Close Your Eyes and Count to 10, and while the many narrators occasionally result in a somewhat disjointed feel, the windmilling foci of attention accurately mirror today’s compulsive online experience.