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Jedna žena odhaluje tajemství pěti bratrů Jaegerových. Na druhé straně města, v temných lesících, v dešti… Macon je nejstarší. Jednatřicet. Bývalý mariňák. Myslím, že jsem ho nikdy neviděla se usmát. Armyovi je dvacet osm. Svobodný otec s těma nejkrásnějšíma zelenýma očima. Nemá ponětí, kým je, pokud není bratrem Jaegerem. Iron brzy půjde do vězení. Když ho potkáte, nikdy by vás to nenapadlo. Ve skutečnosti je to milý kluk. Ale nedokáže přestat reagovat na všechno. Dallas je ten, kterého nenávidím. Jednadvacet, krutý a sobecký. Bere si, a pak zahodí všechno, co zbyde. A Trace je můj. Nebo byl asi dvě vteřiny. Nikdo ho nedokáže zkrotit na dlouho. Ne že bych to někdy chtěla. Byla to zábava, ale teď musím domů. Zpátky na svou stranu kolejí. Pryč od bažin a těchhle mužů. Do velkého domu mých rodičů. Na svou čistou ulici. Tam, kde nikdy nejsem špinavá, neupravená ani rozpálená. A taky že jo. Odjedu zítra hned ráno. Jen dnes chci přespat na gauči. Jejich dům je tmavý a tichý, všichni ostatní spí. Až na jednoho. Vidí mě plakat a přichází ke mně zezadu. Nechám ho, aby mě objal a pevně mě držel. Jeho dech cítím na krku, prsty má ve vlasech a tím to nekončí. Nemyslím, že to byl Trace.

Joining the ranks of Gillian Flynn, A. J. Finn, and Alex Michaelides, Matthew Blake delivers the thriller of the year: a dark, twisty, and shocking mystery about a young woman who commits a double murder while sleepwalking, and then never opens her eyes again. THE WORLD WILL KNOW HER NAME What if your nightmares weren’t really nightmares at all? We spend an average of 33 years of our lives asleep. But what really happens, and what are we capable of, when we sleep? Anna Ogilvy was a budding twenty-five-year-old writer with a bright future. Then, one night, she stabbed two people to death with no apparent motive—and hasn’t woken up since. Dubbed “Sleeping Beauty” by the tabloids, Anna’s condition is a rare psychosomatic disorder known to neurologists as “resignation syndrome.” Dr. Benedict Prince is a forensic psychologist and an expert in the field of sleep-related homicides. His methods are the last hope of solving the infamous “Anna O’”case and waking Anna up so she can stand trial. But he must be careful treating such a high-profile suspect—he’s got career secrets and a complicated personal life of his own. As Anna shows the first signs of stirring, Benedict must determine what really happened and whether Anna should be held responsible for her crimes. Only Anna knows the truth about that night, but only Benedict knows how to discover it. And they’re both in danger from what they find out.

A historical adventure story about the eccentric Victorians who discovered dinosaur bones, leading to a new understanding of human history In the early 1800s the world was a safe and cozy place. But then a twelve\-year\-old farm boy in Massachusetts stumbled upon a row of fossilized three\-toed footprints the size of dinner plates—the first dinosaur tracks ever found. Soon, in England, Victorians unearthed enormous bones—bones that reached as high as a man’s head. Outside of myths and fairy tales, no one had imagined that creatures like three\-toed giants once lumbered across the land. And if anyone conjured up such a scene, they would never imagine that all those animals could have vanished hundreds of millions years ago. The thought of sudden, arbitrary disappearance from life was unnerving and forced the Victorians to rethink everything they knew about the world. Celebrated storyteller and historian Edward Dolnick leads readers through a compelling true adventure as the paleontologists of the first half of the 19th century puzzled their way through the fossil record to create the story of dinosaurs we know today.

Ambitious New York City teenager Craig Gilner is determined to succeed at life - which means getting into the right high school to get into the right job. But once Craig aces his way into Manhattan's Executive Pre-Professional High School, the pressure becomes unbearable. He stops eating and sleeping until, one night, he nearly kills himself. Craig's suicidal episode gets him checked into a mental hospital, where his new neighbors include a transsexual sex addict, a girl who has scarred her own face with scissors, and the self-elected President Armelio. There, Craig is finally able to confront the sources of his anxiety. Ned Vizzini, who himself spent time in a psychiatric hospital, has created a remarkably moving tale about the sometimes unexpected road to happiness.

It started when she was served a soft drink laced with LSD in a dangerous party game. Within months, she was hooked, trapped in a downward spiral that took her from her comfortable home and loving family to the mean streets of an unforgiving city. It was a journey that would rob her of her innocence, her youth \-\- and ultimately her life. Read her diary. Enter her world. You will never forget her.

A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the little-understood science behind complex PTSD and how it has shaped her life "Every cell in my body is filled with the code of generations of trauma, of death, of birth, of migration, of history that I cannot understand... I want to have words for what my bones know." By age thirty, Stephanie Foo was successful on paper: She had her dream job as an award-winning radio producer at This American Life and a loving boyfriend. But behind her office door, she was having panic attacks and sobbing at her desk every morning. After years of questioning what was wrong with herself, she was diagnosed with complex PTSD—a condition that occurs when trauma happens continuously, over the course of years. Both of Foo's parents abandoned her when she was a teenager, after years of physical and verbal abuse and neglect. She thought she'd moved on, but her new diagnosis illuminated the way her past continued to threaten her health, relationships, and career. She found limited resources to help her, so Foo set out to heal herself, and to map her experiences onto the scarce literature about C-PTSD. In this deeply personal and thoroughly researched account, Foo interviews scientists and psychologists and tries a variety of innovative therapies. She returns to her hometown of San Jose, California, to investigate the effects of immigrant trauma on the community, and she uncovers family secrets in the country of her birth, Malaysia, to learn how trauma can be inherited through generations. Ultimately, she discovers that you don't move on from trauma—but you can learn to move with it. Powerful, enlightening, and hopeful, What My Bones Know is a brave narrative that reckons with the hold of the past over the present, the mind over the body—and examines one woman's ability to reclaim agency from her trauma.

After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self\-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on many measures. Why? In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults. Haidt shows how the “play\-based childhood” began to decline in the 1980s, and how it was finally wiped out by the arrival of the “phone\-based childhood” in the early 2010s. He presents more than a dozen mechanisms by which this “great rewiring of childhood” has interfered with children’s social and neurological development, covering everything from sleep deprivation to attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, social comparison, and perfectionism. He explains why social media damages girls more than boys and why boys have been withdrawing from the real world into the virtual world, with disastrous consequences for themselves, their families, and their societies. Most important, Haidt issues a clear call to action. He diagnoses the “collective action problems” that trap us, and then proposes four simple rules that might set us free. He describes steps that parents, teachers, schools, tech companies, and governments can take to end the epidemic of mental illness and restore a more humane childhood. Haidt has spent his career speaking truth backed by data in the most difficult landscapes—communities polarized by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the public health emergency faced by Gen Z. We cannot afford to ignore his findings about protecting our children—and ourselves—from the psychological damage of a phone\-based life.

Scattered Minds explodes the myth of attention deficit disorder as genetically based – and offers real hope and advice for children and adults who live with the condition. Gabor Maté is a revered physician who specializes in neurology, psychiatry and psychology – and himself has ADD. With wisdom gained through years of medical practice and research, Scattered Minds is a must-read for parents – and for anyone interested how experiences in infancy shape the biology and psychology of the human brain. Scattered Minds: - Demonstrates that ADD is not an inherited illness, but a reversible impairment and developmental delay - Explains that in ADD, circuits in the brain whose job is emotional self-regulation and attention control fail to develop in infancy – and why - Shows how ‘distractibility’ is the psychological product of life experience - Allows parents to understand what makes their ADD children tick, and adults with ADD to gain insights into their emotions and behaviours - Expresses optimism about neurological development even in adulthood - Presents a programme of how to promote this development in both children and adults

From one of the world’s most renowned cave divers, a firsthand account of exploring the earth’s final frontier: the hidden depths of our oceans and the sunken caves inside our planet More people have died exploring underwater caves than climbing Mount Everest, and we know more about deep space than we do about the depths of our oceans. From one of the top cave divers working today—and one of the very few women in her field—Into the Planet blends science, adventure, and memoir to bring readers face-to-face with the terror and beauty of earth’s remaining unknowns and the extremes of human capability. Jill Heinerth—the first person in history to dive deep into an Antarctic iceberg and leader of a team that discovered the ancient watery remains of Mayan civilizations—has descended farther into the inner depths of our planet than any other woman. She takes us into the harrowing split-second decisions that determine whether a diver makes it back to safety, the prejudices that prevent women from pursuing careers underwater, and her endeavor to recover a fallen friend’s body from the confines of a cave. But there’s beauty beyond the danger of diving, and while Heinerth swims beneath our feet in the lifeblood of our planet, she works with biologists discovering new species, physicists tracking climate change, and hydrogeologists examining our finite freshwater reserves. Written with hair-raising intensity, Into the Planet is the first book to deliver an intimate account of cave diving, transporting readers deep into inner space, where fear must be reconciled and a mission’s success balances between knowing one’s limits and pushing the envelope of human endurance.

Reality, it turns out, is often not what you perceive it to be—sometimes, there really is someone out to get you. Made You Up tells the story of Alex, a high school senior unable to tell the difference between real life and delusion. Alex fights a daily battle to figure out the difference between reality and delusion. Armed with a take-no-prisoners attitude, her camera, a Magic 8-Ball, and her only ally (her little sister), Alex wages a war against her schizophrenia, determined to stay sane long enough to get into college. She’s pretty optimistic about her chances until classes begin, and she runs into Miles. Didn't she imagine him? Before she knows it, Alex is making friends, going to parties, falling in love, and experiencing all the usual rites of passage for teenagers. But Alex is used to being crazy. She’s not prepared for normal.

From the Giller Prize–winning novelist of 419 comes the startling, funny, and heartbreaking story of a psychological experiment gone wrong. Ever since his girlfriend ended their relationship, Thomas Rosanoff’s life has been on a downward spiral. A gifted med student, he has spent his entire adulthood struggling to escape the legacy of his father, an esteemed psychiatrist who used him as a test subject when he was a boy. Thomas lived his entire young life as the “Boy in the Box,” watched by researchers behind two-way glass. But now the tables have turned. Thomas is the researcher, and his subjects are three homeless men, all of whom claim to be messiahs—but no three people can be the one and only saviour of the world. Thomas is determined to “cure” the three men of their delusions, and in so doing save his career—and maybe even his love life. But when Thomas’s father intervenes in the experiment, events spin out of control, and Thomas must confront the voices he hears in the labyrinth of his own mind. The Shoe on the Roof is an explosively imaginative tour de force, a novel that questions our definitions of sanity and madness, while exploring the magical reality that lies just beyond the world of scientific fact.

„Soweit ich mich erinnern kann, war ich im Bunker.“ Eine junge Frau wird gemeinsam mit neununddreißig anderen Frauen unter der Erde in einem Käfig festgehalten, bewacht von bewaffneten Männern, die nie sprechen; an ihre Verbrechen erinnert sie sich nicht … falls es überhaupt Verbrechen gab. Als Jüngste von vierzig – ein Kind ohne Namen und ohne Vergangenheit – überlebt sie zu einem längst vergessenen Zweck in einer verwüsteten und ausgezehrten Welt. In dieser Realität, in der Nähe verboten ist – in der unerbittlichen Gleichförmigkeit künstlicher Tage und Nächte –, weiß sie nichts von Büchern und Zeit, von Bedürfnissen und Gefühlen. Dann verändert sich alles … und nichts verändert sich. Eine junge Frau, die Männer nie gekannt hat – ein Kind, das keine Geschichte vor den Gittern und Fesseln kennt – muss sich nun Stück für Stück neu erfinden, an einem Ort, an dem sie nie gewesen ist … und angesichts des herausforderndsten und erschreckendsten aller Unbekannten: der Freiheit.

There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in a matter of hours: nuclear war. And one of the triggers for that war would be a nuclear missile inbound toward the United States. Every generation, a journalist has looked deep into the heart of the nuclear military establishment: the technologies, the safeguards, the plans, and the risks. These investigations are vital to how we understand the world we really live in—where one nuclear missile will beget one in return, and where the choreography of the world’s end requires massive decisions made on seconds’ notice with information that is only as good as the intelligence we have. Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War: A Scenario explores this ticking\-clock scenario, based on dozens of exclusive new interviews with military and civilian experts who have built the weapons, have been privy to the response plans, and have been responsible for those decisions should they have needed to be made. Nuclear War: A Scenario examines the handful of minutes after a nuclear missile launch. It is essential reading, and unlike any other book in its depth and urgency.

Love Island meets The Hunger Games in this must\-talk\-about\-it read, as bingeable as the best reality TV. Lily—a bored, beautiful twenty\-something—wakes up on a remote desert compound, alongside nineteen other contestants competing on a massively popular reality show. To win, she must outlast her housemates to stay in the Compound the longest, while competing in challenges for luxury rewards like champagne and lipstick, plus communal necessities to outfit their new home, like food, appliances, and a front door. Cameras are catching all her angles, good and bad, but Lily has no desire to leave: why would she, when the world outside is falling apart? As the competition intensifies, intimacy between the players deepens, and it becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish between desire and desperation. When the unseen producers raise the stakes, forcing contestants into upsetting, even dangerous situations, the line between playing the game and surviving it begins to blur. If Lily makes it to the end, she’ll receive prizes beyond her wildest dreams—but what will she have to do to win? Addictive and prescient, The Compound is an explosive debut from a major new voice in fiction and will linger in your mind long after the game ends

Der Autor von „Underground Railroad“, Colson Whitehead, dramatisiert auf brillante Weise einen weiteren Abschnitt der amerikanischen Geschichte anhand der Geschichte zweier Jungen, die in den 1960er Jahren in Florida in eine höllische Besserungsanstalt eingewiesen werden. Elwood Curtis hat sich die Worte von Dr. Martin Luther King zu Herzen genommen: Er ist genauso gut wie jeder andere. Von seinen Eltern verlassen und von seiner liebevollen, strengen und klarsichtigen Großmutter großgezogen, steht Elwood kurz davor, sich am örtlichen College für Schwarze einzuschreiben. Doch zu dieser Zeit und an diesem Ort genügt ein einziger unschuldiger Fehler, um seine Zukunft zu zerstören, und so kommt Elwood an die Nickel Academy, die behauptet, ihren Insassen eine „körperliche, intellektuelle und moralische Ausbildung“ zu bieten, die sie dazu befähigen werde, „ehrenhafte und ehrliche Männer“ zu werden. In Wirklichkeit ist die Nickel Academy eine Kammer des Schreckens, in der körperlicher, emotionaler und sexueller Missbrauch an der Tagesordnung sind, in der korrupte Beamte und Händler mit für die Schule bestimmten Lieferungen ein florierendes Geschäft machen und in der jeder Junge, der Widerstand leistet, wahrscheinlich „hinten“ verschwindet. Erschüttert darüber, sich in dieser brutalen Umgebung wiederzufinden, versucht Elwood, an Dr. Kings eindringlicher Aussage festzuhalten: „Werft uns ins Gefängnis, und wir werden euch trotzdem lieben.“ Doch Elwoods Mitinsasse und neuer Freund Turner hält Elwood für naiv – und für Schlimmeres; die Welt ist verdorben, und die einzige Möglichkeit zu überleben besteht darin, die Grausamkeit und den Zynismus ihrer Unterdrücker nachzuahmen. Die Spannung zwischen Elwoods Idealismus und Turners Skepsis führt zu einer Entscheidung, die jahrzehntelang nachwirken wird. Basierend auf der Geschichte einer realen Besserungsanstalt in Florida, die einhundertelf Jahre lang betrieben wurde und das Leben Tausender Kinder deformierte und zerstörte, ist „Die Nickel Boys“ eine erschütternde, packende Erzählung eines großen amerikanischen Romanciers, dessen Werk unverzichtbar ist, um die gegenwärtige Realität der Vereinigten Staaten zu verstehen.

Das Glück hat acht Arme ist eine Erkundung von Freundschaft, Bewältigung und Hoffnung und erzählt von der ungewöhnlichen Verbindung einer Witwe mit einem Riesenpazifikkraken. Nachdem Tova Sullivans Ehemann gestorben war, begann sie, in der Nachtschicht im Sowell-Bay-Aquarium zu arbeiten, Böden zu wischen und aufzuräumen. Beschäftigt zu bleiben hat ihr immer geholfen, damit fertigzuwerden – seit ihr achtzehnjähriger Sohn Erik vor über dreißig Jahren auf einem Boot im Puget Sound auf rätselhafte Weise verschwand. Tova freundet sich mit dem mürrischen Marcellus an, einem Riesenpazifikkraken, der im Aquarium lebt. Marcellus weiß mehr, als sich irgendjemand vorstellen kann, doch er würde nicht im Traum einen seiner acht Arme für seine menschlichen Entführer rühren – bis er eine bemerkenswerte Freundschaft mit Tova schließt. Ganz Detektiv zieht Marcellus seine Schlüsse darüber, was in der Nacht geschah, in der Tovas Sohn verschwand. Nun muss Marcellus jeden Trick einsetzen, den sein alter wirbelloser Körper aufzubringen vermag, um für sie die Wahrheit ans Licht zu bringen, bevor es zu spät ist. Shelby Van Pelts Debütroman erinnert auf sanfte Weise daran, dass ein genauer Blick auf die Vergangenheit manchmal dabei helfen kann, eine Zukunft zu entdecken, die einst unmöglich schien.

Sharzad Daryai looks like she’s got it all, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. She’s 32 years old, her dream job turning stale, and she’s desperate for a change. And then she finds out her brother is getting married. Her younger brother. Sharzad’s never been particularly lucky in love, but she doesn’t want to face another round of pitying aunties and uncles asking when it’s going to be her turn. When her siblings insist she needs to bring a date to the wedding, or else, she needs a solution. And fast. Sam Kazemi is a golden boy whose shine is tarnished. Sure, he’s got the fancy degree from an American school, but his girlfriend just dumped him and his dream project is in trouble. With a head for numbers, Sam has no flair for the creative, and no desire to admit he’s bitten off more than he can chew. After a pair of heated chance encounters, Sharzad and Sam strike a She’ll help him find a creative solution to his business woes if he agrees to pose as her boyfriend at all wedding-related events. The lines between work and play, real and fake begin to blur, but romantically-reluctant Sharzad and overly-confident Sam maintain that after the wedding, they’ll go their separate ways. After the wedding, things will go back to normal, with no feelings in the way. Right? Right?

From New York Times bestselling author Ayana Gray comes a new kind of villain origin story, reimagining one of the most iconic monsters in Greek mythology as a provocative and powerful young heroine. Meddy has spent her whole life as a footnote in someone else’s story. Out of place next to her beautiful, immortal sisters and her parents—both gods, albeit minor ones—she dreams of leaving her family’s island for a life of adventure. So when she catches the eye of the goddess Athena, who invites her to train as an esteemed priestess in her temple, Meddy leaps at the chance to see the world beyond her home. In the colorful market streets of Athens and the clandestine chambers of the temple, Meddy flourishes in her role as Athena’s favored acolyte, getting her first tastes of purpose and power. But when she is noticed by another Olympian, Poseidon, the course of Meddy’s promising future is suddenly and irrevocably altered. When her locs are transformed into snakes as punishment for a crime she did not commit, Medusa must embrace a new identity—not as a victim, but as a vigilante—and with it, the chance to write her own story as mortal, martyr, and myth. Exploding with rage, heartbreak, and love, I, Medusa portrays a young woman caught in the crosscurrents between her heart’s deepest desires and the cruel, careless games the Olympian gods play.

A moving exploration of the 2022 women-led protests in Iran, as told through the interwoven stories of two Iranian journalists In 2022, in response to the killing of Mahsa Jina Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman who died in police custody after being arrested for not wearing her hijab, thousands of Iranians – mostly women – took to the streets in protest. Fatemeh Jamalpour had just returned to the country after working in London, and despite the threat of imprisonment or death for her work as a journalist, joined the throngs of people fighting to topple Iran’s religious extremist regime. Across the globe, Nilo Tabrizy, whose parents emigrated from Iran and raised her in Canada, was covering the protests and state violence in Iran, knowing that spotlighting the women on the frontlines and the systemic injustice of the Iranian government meant she would not be able to safely return to Iran in the future. Though they had only met once in person, Nilo and Fatemeh corresponded constantly, often through encrypted platforms in order to protect Fatemeh's privacy and security. As the protests continued to unfold, the sense of sisterhood they shared led them to embark on an effort to document the spirit and legacy of the movement, and the history, geopolitics, and influences that led to this point. At once deeply personal and assiduously reported, For the Sun After Long Nights offers two perspectives on what it means, as a journalist, to cover the stories that are closest to one's heart—both from the frontlines and from afar.

This darkly funny and provocative novel reimagines classic fairy tale characters as modern women in a support group for trauma. In present-day New York City, five women meet in a basement support group to process their traumas. Bernice grapples with the fallout of dating a psychopathic, blue-bearded billionaire. Ruby, once devoured by a wolf, now wears him as a coat. Gretel questions her memory of being held captive in a house made of candy. Ashlee, the winner of a Bachelor-esque dating show, wonders if she really got her promised fairy tale ending. And Raina's love story will shock them all. Though the women start out wary of one another, judging each other’s stories, gradually they begin to realize that they may have more in common than they supposed . . . What really brought them here? What secrets will they reveal? And is it too late for them to rescue each other? Dark, edgy, and wickedly funny, this debut for readers of Carmen Maria Machado, Kristen Arnett, and Kelly Link takes our coziest, most beloved childhood stories, exposes them as anti-feminist nightmares, and transforms them into a new kind of myth for grown-up women.

Dear Reader, You want my advice? Never look a gift horse in the mouth. You don’t want to see the rotten teeth. In this case, the gift is a scholarship to attend the prestigious Neveah University. The rotten teeth? Well, they came in the form of my brand new stepbrother and his little cohort of entitled, arrogant best friends. Four dangerously handsome and stupidly wealthy men who made up their minds about me long before we met. Men who are used to getting everything they want no matter what the price. I was a big girl, I could ignore them. Then came the secret society hazing. Kidnappings. Crazy parties. Insane stunts. Mindblowing prizes. Even so, I could handle myself... until the secret and stolen moments with men I had no business falling for. It was enough to give a girl a nightmares. Because, dear reader, this was only the beginning of my ordeal with the Devil’s Backbone Society. How do I know? I read about it...

A bold, inventive, and fiercely original debut novel that begins with an uncle dead and his tween niece’s private confession to the reader—she and her sister killed him, and they blame the British. Summer, 1986. The Creel sisters, Georgie Ayyar and Agatha Krishna, welcome their aunt, uncle and young cousin—newly arrived from India—into their house in rural Wyoming where they’ll all live together. Because this is what families do. That is, until the sisters decide that it’s time for their uncle to die. According to Georgie, the British are to blame. And to understand why, you need to hear her story. She details the violence hiding in their house and history, her once-unshakeable bond with Agatha Krishna, and her understanding of herself as an Indian-American in the heart of the West. Her account is, at every turn, cheeky, unflinching, and infectiously inflected with the trappings of teendom, including the magazine quizzes that help her make sense of her life. At its heart, the tale she weaves is: a) a vivid portrait of an extended family b) a moving story of sisterhood c) a playful ode to the 80s d) a murder mystery (of sorts) e) an unexpected and unwaveringly powerful meditation on history and language, trauma and healing, and the meaning of independence Or maybe it’s really: f) all of the above.

Това е най-гледаното телевизионно състезание в галактиката! За миг всяка построена от хората конструкция на Земята — от Бъкингамския дворец до най-малката барака, всички камиони и коли — се срутва на купчина и потъва в земята. Сградите и всички хора в тях са атомизирани и преобразени в подземието: лабиринт на 18 нива, пълен с капани, чудовища и плячка. Подземие толкова огромно, че обикаля цялото земно кълбо. Само неколцина се осмеляват да влязат. Но щом веднъж си вътре, не можеш да излезеш. А още по-лошото е, че всяко ниво има ограничение във времето. Имаш само дни, за да намериш стълбище към следващото ниво надолу, иначе играта приключва. В тази игра не става дума за силата или сръчността ти. Става дума за гледанията и последователите ти. За това да си изградиш публика и да убиваш онези гоблини със стил. Тук не можеш просто да оцелееш. Трябва да оцелееш грандиозно. Трябва да се биеш с устрем, с вълнение. Трябва да ги накараш да се изправят на крака и да ликуват. А ако притежаваш онзи специален фактор, може и да си спечелиш последователи. Това е единственият начин наистина да оцелееш в тази игра — с помощта на кутиите с плячка, пускани ти от щедрите благодетели, които гледат от цялата галактика. Наричат го Светът на тъмницолазите. Но за Карл това съвсем не е игра.