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Black Chalk

Author Christopher J. Yates
Publisher Harvill Secker
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ISBN / ASIN1846557283
ISBN-139781846557286
Sales Rank1,024,269
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸

Description

Who knows better than your best friends what will break you?

     One game. Six students. Five survivors.

     In the intimidating surroundings of Oxford University a group of six friends begin to play a game -- an elaborate variant on truth or dare, in which the loser of each round has to perform an embarrassing challenge. The eventual winner stood to walk away with a sizable prize, not simply the money that each had contributed to the pot from their student grants, but a substantial sum staked to them by a mysterious campus organisation known as the Game Society, provided that the students agreed to keep both the Game and its sponsorship secret.

     But the game quickly assumes a life of its own: the stakes grow higher and the dares more personal, more humiliating, finally evolving into a vicious struggle with unpredictable and tragic results. Now, years later, one player, who believed he had fled the Game long ago, discovers that it is far from over.