{"product_id":"the-demi-monde-9780062070340b","title":"The Demi-Monde","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Demi-Monde:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. A subclass of society whose members embrace a decadent lifestyle and evince loose morals.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. A shadow world where the norms of civilized behavior have been abandoned.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. A massive multiple-player simulation technology that re-creates in a wholly realistic cyber-milieu the threat-ambiance and no-warning aspects of a hi-intensity, deep-density, urban Asymmetric Warfare Environment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Hell.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWelcome to the Demi-Monde, the ultimate in virtual reality'a military training ground and vivid, simulated world of cruelty and chaos run by psychopaths, madmen and fanatics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIf you die here, you die in the Real World. . .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn the year 2018, the Demi-Monde is the most sophisticated, complex and unpredictable computer simulation ever created, devised specifically to train soldiers for the nightmarish reality of urban warfare. A virtual world of eternal civil conflict, its thirty million inhabitants?Dupes'are ruled by cyber-duplicates of some of history's cruelest tyrants: the fanatical Nazi butcher Reinhard Heydrich; Stalin's arch executioner Lavrentii Beria; the torture-loving Grand Inquisitor TomÃ#129;s de Torquemada; the Reign of Terror's bloodthirsty mastermind Maximilien Robespierre.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBut something has gone horribly wrong inside the Demi-Monde, and the U.S. president's daughter, Norma, has been lured into this terrifying shadow world, only to be trapped there. Her last hope of rescue is Ella Thomas, an eighteen-year-old jazz singer and very reluctant heroine. But when Ella infiltrates the Demi-Monde and begins her hunt for Norma, she soon discovers the walls containing the evils of this simulated environment are dissolving'and the Real World is in far more danger than anyone knows. With the help of resistors determined to understand their world, Ella must race to save Norma and stop an apocalypse . . . but the clock is ticking.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBlending fact and fantasy, history and religion, military and existential themes, epic adventure and dark wit, dystopia and steampunk in a wholly original and driving narrative stream,\u003ci\u003eThe Demi-Monde: Winter\u003c\/i\u003eis inventive fiction at its finest.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Collins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42824747515984,"sku":"9780062070340B","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9780062070340-l.jpg?v=1785897895","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/the-demi-monde-9780062070340b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}