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Overview

The Demi-Monde:

1. A subclass of society whose members embrace a decadent lifestyle and evince loose morals.

2. A shadow world where the norms of civilized behavior have been abandoned.

3. A massive multiple-player simulation technology that re-creates in a wholly realistic cyber-milieu the threat-ambiance and no-warning aspects of a hi-intensity, deep-density, urban Asymmetric Warfare Environment.

4. Hell.

Welcome to the Demi-Monde, the ultimate in virtual reality—a military training ground and vivid, simulated world of cruelty and chaos run by psychopaths, madmen and fanatics.

If you die here, you die in the Real World . . .

In the year 2018, the Demi-Monde is the most sophisticated, complex and unpredictable computer simulation ever created, devised specifically to train soldiers for the nightmarish reality of urban warfare. A virtual world of eternal civil conflict, its thirty million inhabitants—“Dupes”—are ruled by cyber-duplicates of some of history’s cruelest tyrants: the fanatical Nazi butcher Reinhard Heydrich; Stalin’s arch executioner Lavrentii Beria; the torture-loving Grand Inquisitor TomÁs de Torquemada; the Reign of Terror’s bloodthirsty mastermind Maximilien Robespierre.

But something has gone horribly wrong inside the Demi-Monde, and the U.S. president’s daughter, Norma, has been lured into this terrifying shadow world, only to be trapped there. Her last hope of rescue is Ella Thomas, an eighteen-year-old jazz singer and very reluctant heroine. But when Ella infiltrates the Demi-Monde and begins her hunt for Norma, she soon discovers the walls containing the evils of this simulated environment are dissolving—and the Real World is in far more danger than anyone knows. With the help of resistors determined to understand their world, Ella must race to save Norma and stop an apocalypse . . . but the clock is ticking.

Blending fact and fantasy, history and religion, military and existential themes, epic adventure and dark wit, dystopia and steampunk in a wholly original and driving narrative stream, The Demi-Monde: Winter is inventive fiction at its finest.

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Library Journal
A computer simulation intended to train soldiers for the unique conditions of urban warfare, the Demi-Monde is a miniworld in a state of constant civil war, its various sectors ruled by "Dupes," personalities drawn from the most nefarious names in world history. When the U.S. President's daughter, Norma Williams, becomes trapped in the Demi-Monde, a young jazz singer named Ella Thomas accepts the assignment to enter the computer-generated world to rescue her. But when Ella stumbles upon a plot to merge the real world with the Demi-Monde, her mission suddenly expands from a simple retrieval to the survival of the real world. Rees's debut mirrors Tad Williams's "Otherland" series in using a virtual world setting, but incorporating historical events and personages as building blocks of that world adds a freshness to this story. VERDICT Strong characters, along with the clever interweaving of seemingly disparate plot threads, make this a standout selection for fans of high-tech sf and cyberfiction.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780062070340
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 12/27/2011
  • Pages: 528
  • Sales rank: 404,374
  • Product dimensions: 6.46 (w) x 9.28 (h) x 1.61 (d)

Meet the Author

Rod Rees has spent his life traveling throughout Africa, the Middle East, Bangladesh and Russia, and consequently found himself living in Qatar, Tehran and Moscow. He has built pharmaceutical factories in Dhaka, set up a satellite communication network in Moscow and conceived and designed a jazz-themed hotel in the U.K. Now a full-time writer, he lives near Derby, England, with his wife, Nelli, and their two children.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 5, 2012

    It is part of a series!

    This book has no end. You are left hanging.

    This is not a narrative with a beginning, middle, end ... The story just stops.

    Demi-Monde is actually part 1 of a series of books - That information is written NOWHERE. They want you buy this book, then wait and buy the next one, and the next ...

    Nothing wrong with writing and selling a series --- Just tell us the truth.

    Don't be lured into purchasing this expensive novel only to find out that it does not end ...

    ... and please don't tell me that the word Winter, in the sub-heading, gave it away ...

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 28, 2012

    I want more!

    I really hope there is another book coming out. So many questions left unanswered. Wonderful read!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 17, 2011

    looks good

    I'm looking foward to this. It sounds really good.

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