If you like Lord of the Flies, 1984, All the King's Men and other books that explore the nature of power and the price who seek it have to pay for it, you may be interested in this psychological thriller. Ray N. Kuili’s AWAKENING, called by some reviewers “The Hunger Games of management” is a story of eleven rising-star managers who gather together in a secluded luxury lodge for a mysterious five-day leadership training. Asked to pick a leader among themselves, they soon realize that nothing is what it seems at this place, where managers are compared to ancient conquerors and one corporate taboo gets broken after another. As the group exercise progresses rapidly from a friendly election to a twisted web of no-holds-barred power plays, the players don’t realize that soon some of them will be facing the harshest challenge of their lives. The unconventional workshop is about to take a very dangerous turn, testing values and characters of its participants in the most brutal ways and presenting them with the ultimate question: how high a price are they willing to pay for power?