A Prophecy in Pixels
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MatureComplete Sun, Jan 29, 20176h 11m
After his narrow escape from death at the Invasion of Lawrence, outlaw journalist Atticus Gainsborough was looking forward to a soft-touch assignment. Trivia Master, the king of youth trivia competitions, sure seemed like just the vacation he was looking for. But things are a little off on the trivia circuit. It's not the Chinese gangsters who think that Atticus knows what happened to their largest client, or the serial killer who's been offing reporters and is ready to strike again. The problem is with the kids - brilliant, disturbed, and ruthless. When one of them turns up dead, it looks like the competition is a lot more cutthroat than anyone imagined. And just when Atticus is ready to run, a terrorism scare seals off the building, locking him in with a horde of overachieving psychopaths...and the only way out is to find a weapon of mass destruction tucked away somewhere in the building. It's hard out there for a journalist these days.
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