Demi-Monde

<p>You can't help getting caught up in the smartly-paced story...which is served up with lashings of steampunk relish.<br />--<em>SFX </em>(UK)</p><p>Rees makes the book work: the world he's created is a psychopathic nightmare.<br />--<em>The Guardian</em></p><p>In the Demi-Monde author Rod Rees has conjured up a terrifying virtual reality a world dominated by history's most ruthless and bloodthirsty psychopaths--from Holocaust architect Reinhard Heydrich to Torquemada the Spanish Inquisition's pitiless torturer to Josef Stalin's bloodthirsty right-hand man/monster the infamous Beria. <em>The Demi-Monde: Winter</em> kicks off a brilliant high concept series that blends science fiction and thriller steampunk and dystopian vision. If Neil Gaiman Neal Stephenson James Rollins and Clive Cussler participated in Suzanne Collins's <em>The Hunger Games</em> the result might be something akin to the dark and ingenious madness of Rees's <em>The Demi-Monde: Winter</em>.<br /></p>