The Calling. James Frey
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Takeda
Baitsakhan
Kala Mozami, Christopher Vanderkamp
Baitsakhan, Maccabee Adlai
Aisling Kopp
Sarah Alopay, Jago Tlaloc
Christopher Vanderkamp, Kala Mozami
Chiyoko Takeda, Kala Mozami, Christopher Vanderkamp
Hilal Ibn Isa Al-Salt
Chiyoko Takeda
Sarah Alopay, Jago Tlaloc
Baitsakhan, Maccabee Adlai
Kala Mozami, Christopher Vanderkamp
Chiyoko Takeda
Kala Mozami, Christopher Vanderkamp
Baitsakhan, Maccabee Adlai
Chiyoko Takeda
Kala Mozami, Christopher Vanderkamp, Baitsakhan, Maccabee Adlai, Chiyoko Takeda
An Liu
Kala Mozami, Christopher Vanderkamp, Baitsakhan, Maccabee Adlai, Chiyoko Takeda
Alice Ulapala
Chiyoko Takeda, Kala Mozami, Maccabee Adlai, Baitsakhan, Christopher Vanderkamp
Christopher Vanderkamp
Sarah Alopay, Jago Tlaloc, Chiyoko Takeda
Baitsakhan, Maccabee Adlai
Shari Chopra
Sarah Alopay, Jago Tlaloc, Chiyoko Takeda, Christopher Vanderkamp
Aisling Kopp
Hilal Ibn Isa Al-Salt
Maccabee Adlai, Baitsakhan
Sarah Alopay, Jago Tlaloc, Chiyoko Takeda, Christopher Vanderkamp
Maccabee Adlai, Baitsakhan
Sarah Alopay, Jago Tlaloc, Chiyoko Takeda, Christopher Vanderkamp
Hilal Ibn Isa Al-Salt
Sarah Alopay
Chiyoko Takeda
Hilal Ibn Isa Al-Salt
Sarah Alopay, Jago Tlaloc, Christopher Vanderkamp
Chiyoko Takeda
Aisling Kopp, Sarah Alopay, Jago Tlaloc, Christopher Vanderkamp
Chiyoko Takeda
Hilal Ibn Isa Al-Salt
An Liu
Sarah Alopay, Jago Tlaloc, Christopher Vanderkamp
Maccabee Adlai, Baitsakhan
Sarah Alopay, Jago Tlaloc, Christopher Vanderkamp
An Liu
Sarah Alopay, Jago Tlaloc, Christopher Vanderkamp
Chiyoko Takeda
Christopher Vanderkamp, An Liu
Sarah Alopay, Jago Tlaloc, Chiyoko Takeda, An Liu, Christopher Vanderkamp
All Players
Shari Chopra
Endnotes
About the Publisher
Much of this book is fiction, but much of the information in it is not. Endgame is real. And Endgame is coming.
Everything, all the time, every word, name, number, place, distance, color, time, every letter on every page, everything, always. So says, and so has been said, and so will be said again. Everything.
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Endgame has begun. Our future is unwritten. Our future is your future. What will be will be.
We each believe some version of how we got here. God made us. Aliens beamed us. Lightning split us, or portals delivered us. In the end, the how doesn’t matter. We have this planet, this world, this Earth. We came here, we have been here, and we are here now. You, me, us, the whole of humanity. Whatever you believe happened in the beginning is not important. The end, however. The end is.
This is Endgame.
We are 12 in number. Young in body, but of ancient people. Our lines were chosen thousands of years ago. We have been preparing every day since. Once the game begins, we must deliberate and decipher, move and murder. Some of us are less ready than others, and the lessers will be the first to die. Endgame is simple this way. What is not simple is that when one of us dies, it will mean the deaths of countless others. The Event, and what comes after, will see to that. You are the unwitting billions. You are the innocent bystanders. You are the lucky losers and the unlucky winners. You are the audience at a play that will determine your fate.
We are the Players. Your Players. We have to Play. We must be older than 13 and younger than 20. It is the rule, and it has always been this way. We are not supernatural. None of us can fly, or turn lead to gold, or heal ourselves. When death comes, it comes. We are mortal. Human. We are the inheritors of the Earth. The Great Puzzle of Salvation is ours to solve, and one of us must do it, or we will all be lost. Together we are everything: strong, kind, ruthless, loyal, smart, stupid, ugly, lustful, mean, fickle, beautiful, calculating, lazy, exuberant, weak.
We are good and evil. Like you.
Like all.
But we are not together. We are not friends. We do not call one another, and we do not text one another. We do not chat on the internet or meet for coffee. We are separated and scattered, spread around the world. We have been raised and trained since birth to be wary and wise, cunning and deceptive, ruthless and merciless. We will stop at nothing to find the keys to the Great Puzzle. We cannot fail. Failure is death. Failure is the End of All, the End of Everything.
Will exuberance beat strength? Stupidity top kindness? Laziness thwart beauty? Will the winner be good or evil? There is only one way to find out.
Play.
Survive.
Solve.
Our future is unwritten. Our future is your future. What will be will be.
So listen.
Follow.
Cheer.
Hope.
Pray.
Pray hard if that is what you believe.
We are the Players. Your Players. We Play for you.
Come Play with us.
People of Earth.
Endgame has begun.
Hafız Alipaşa Sk, Aziz Mahmut Hüdayi Mh, Istanbul, Turkey
Marcus Loxias Megalos is bored. He cannot remember a time before the boredom. School is boring. Girls are boring. Football is boring. Especially when his team, his favorite team, Fenerbahçe, is losing, as they are now, to Manisaspor.
Marcus sneers at the TV in his small, undecorated room.