The Escape Room

The Escape Room

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The heart-stopping new novel of deception and delusion from the bestselling author of The Girl in Kellers Way.

‘Welcome to the escape room. Your goal is simple. Get out alive.’
In the lucrative world of Wall Street finance, Vincent, Jules, Sylvie and Sam are the ultimate high-flyers. Ruthlessly ambitious, they make billion-dollar deals and live lives of outrageous luxury. Getting rich is all that matters, and they'll do anything to get ahead.

When the four of them become trapped in an elevator escape room, things start to go horribly wrong. They have to put aside their fierce office rivalries and work together to solve the clues that will release them. But in the confines of the elevator the dark secrets of their team are laid bare. They are made to answer for profiting from a workplace where deception, intimidation and sexual harassment thrive.

Tempers fray and the escape room's clues turn more and more ominous, leaving the four of them dangling on the precipice of disaster. If they want to survive, they'll have to solve one final puzzle: which one of them is a killer?

Release date: July 30, 2019

Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group

Print pages: 352

Reader says this book is...: antihero (1) dark (1) entertaining story (1) escapist/easy read (1) satisfying ending (1) suspenseful (1) unexpected twists (1) unputdownable (1)

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Four Wall Street bankers meet at an office building to enter an escape room. That's the extent of the information they have, but they suspect this event might be linked to corporate restructuring and potential job losses. In the cut-throat industry of financial investment, everything is a competition with high-stakes.

The POV then shifts to the past where Sara has just joined Stanhope and Sons and is navigating the alien but glamorous lifestyle at the firm. The past and present gradually reveal the story leading to an explosive climax. From Sara's experience at the firm to th...
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Four Wall Street bankers meet at an office building to enter an escape room. That's the extent of the information they have, but they suspect this event might be linked to corporate restructuring and potential job losses. In the cut-throat industry of financial investment, everything is a competition with high-stakes.

The POV then shifts to the past where Sara has just joined Stanhope and Sons and is navigating the alien but glamorous lifestyle at the firm. The past and present gradually reveal the story leading to an explosive climax. From Sara's experience at the firm to the four bankers solving puzzles in an over-heated elevator.

It's not often that I find myself glued to the pages, but in the case of The Escape Room, I truly was. Between the jaw-dropping extravagance of Wall Street and the tension in the lift, I was hooked. I found the past as interesting as the present and raced between chapters to find out what was going to happen next.

There are no heroes in this book, only flawed human beings, and the extraordinary lengths flawed human beings will go for greed. My only complaint is that the US book cover is so much lovelier than the UK version. I need that gorgeous book on my shelf!
 on 3/15/21
antihero dark entertaining story escapist/easy read satisfying ending suspenseful unexpected twists unputdownable
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