JAMES FREY, NILES JOHNSON-SHELTON
Moving, fighting and playing helps at least one thing. To forget. The Endgame is here. The world is starting to collapse, to go crazy. But the Players continue to play. The Earth Key has been found. There are two keys left and nine Players. Queens, New York The Asling Kop seeks the impossible: to end Endgame. But before she can get home to rebuild, she is approached by CIA agents, who know everything about Endgame, and offered to help her either to stop the game or to emerge victorious. Kingdom of Axum, Ethiopia Hilal ibn Iza al-Salt, though deformed, is alive. And he knows something the rest of the Players are unaware of: that the Keplers intervened, even though they should be disengaged. But the Axumites have a unique secret that can help them redeem humanity - and perhaps defeat the beings behind Endgame. London, England Sarah Alopei found the first key. They are with Iago - and they are ahead. Sarah, however, is unable to forgive herself for Christopher's death and the triggering of the Event. All he can do to keep the demons away is to play ∙ to play to win. The Key of Heaven - wherever it is, whatever it is - is next. All nine Players will not stop at anything to get it. The Endgame is here.
