The Calling - James Frey

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Takeda

       Baitsakhan

       Kala Mozami, Christopher Vanderkamp

       Baitsakhan, Maccabee Adlai

       Aisling Kopp

       Sarah Alopay, Jago Tlaloc

       Christopher Vanderkamp, Kala Mozami

       Chiyoko Takeda, Kala Mozami, Christopher Vanderkamp

       Hilal Ibn Isa Al-Salt

       Chiyoko Takeda

       Sarah Alopay, Jago Tlaloc

       Baitsakhan, Maccabee Adlai

       Kala Mozami, Christopher Vanderkamp

       Chiyoko Takeda

       Kala Mozami, Christopher Vanderkamp

       Baitsakhan, Maccabee Adlai

       Chiyoko Takeda

       Kala Mozami, Christopher Vanderkamp, Baitsakhan, Maccabee Adlai, Chiyoko Takeda

       An Liu

       Kala Mozami, Christopher Vanderkamp, Baitsakhan, Maccabee Adlai, Chiyoko Takeda

       Alice Ulapala

       Chiyoko Takeda, Kala Mozami, Maccabee Adlai, Baitsakhan, Christopher Vanderkamp

       Christopher Vanderkamp

       Sarah Alopay, Jago Tlaloc, Chiyoko Takeda

       Baitsakhan, Maccabee Adlai

       Shari Chopra

       Sarah Alopay, Jago Tlaloc, Chiyoko Takeda, Christopher Vanderkamp

       Aisling Kopp

       Hilal Ibn Isa Al-Salt

       Maccabee Adlai, Baitsakhan

       Sarah Alopay, Jago Tlaloc, Chiyoko Takeda, Christopher Vanderkamp

       Maccabee Adlai, Baitsakhan

       Sarah Alopay, Jago Tlaloc, Chiyoko Takeda, Christopher Vanderkamp

       Hilal Ibn Isa Al-Salt

       Sarah Alopay

       Chiyoko Takeda

       Hilal Ibn Isa Al-Salt

       Sarah Alopay, Jago Tlaloc, Christopher Vanderkamp

       Chiyoko Takeda

       Aisling Kopp, Sarah Alopay, Jago Tlaloc, Christopher Vanderkamp

       Chiyoko Takeda

       Hilal Ibn Isa Al-Salt

       An Liu

       Sarah Alopay, Jago Tlaloc, Christopher Vanderkamp

       Maccabee Adlai, Baitsakhan

       Sarah Alopay, Jago Tlaloc, Christopher Vanderkamp

       An Liu

       Sarah Alopay, Jago Tlaloc, Christopher Vanderkamp

       Chiyoko Takeda

       Christopher Vanderkamp, An Liu

       Sarah Alopay, Jago Tlaloc, Chiyoko Takeda, An Liu, Christopher Vanderkamp

       All Players

       Shari Chopra

       Endnotes

       About the Publisher

      Much of this book is fiction, but much of the information in it is not. Endgame is real. And Endgame is coming.

      Everything, all the time, every word, name, number, place, distance, color, time, every letter on every page, everything, always. So says, and so has been said, and so will be said again. Everything.

      ʿ Ēlv 12 12 12vi

      Endgame has begun. Our future is unwritten. Our future is your future. What will be will be.

      We each believe some version of how we got here. God made us. Aliens beamed us. Lightning split us, or portals delivered us. In the end, the how doesn’t matter. We have this planet, this world, this Earth. We came here, we have been here, and we are here now. You, me, us, the whole of humanity. Whatever you believe happened in the beginning is not important. The end, however. The end is.

      This is Endgame.

      We are 12 in number. Young in body, but of ancient people. Our lines were chosen thousands of years ago. We have been preparing every day since. Once the game begins, we must deliberate and decipher, move and murder. Some of us are less ready than others, and the lessers will be the first to die. Endgame is simple this way. What is not simple is that when one of us dies, it will mean the deaths of countless others. The Event, and what comes after, will see to that. You are the unwitting billions. You are the innocent bystanders. You are the lucky losers and the unlucky winners. You are the audience at a play that will determine your fate.

      We are the Players. Your Players. We have to Play. We must be older than 13 and younger than 20. It is the rule, and it has always been this way. We are not supernatural. None of us can fly, or turn lead to gold, or heal ourselves. When death comes, it comes. We are mortal. Human. We are the inheritors of the Earth. The Great Puzzle of Salvation is ours to solve, and one of us must do it, or we will all be lost. Together we are everything: strong, kind, ruthless, loyal, smart, stupid, ugly, lustful, mean, fickle, beautiful, calculating, lazy, exuberant, weak.

      We are good and evil. Like you.

      Like all.

      But we are not together. We are not friends. We do not call one another, and we do not text one another. We do not chat on the internet or meet for coffee. We are separated and scattered, spread around the world. We have been raised and trained since birth to be wary and wise, cunning and deceptive, ruthless and merciless. We will stop at nothing to find the keys to the Great Puzzle. We cannot fail. Failure is death. Failure is the End of All, the End of Everything.

      Will exuberance beat strength? Stupidity top kindness? Laziness thwart beauty? Will the winner be good or evil? There is only one way to find out.

      Play.

      Survive.

      Solve.

      Our future is unwritten. Our future is your future. What will be will be.

      So listen.

      Follow.

      Cheer.

      Hope.

      Pray.

      Pray hard if that is what you believe.

      We are the Players. Your Players. We Play for you.

      Come Play with us.

      People of Earth.

      Endgame has begun.

       MARCUS LOXIAS MEGALOS

       Hafız Alipaşa Sk, Aziz Mahmut Hüdayi Mh, Istanbul, Turkey

      Marcus Loxias Megalos is bored. He cannot remember a time before the boredom. School is boring. Girls are boring. Football is boring. Especially when his team, his favorite team, Fenerbahçe, is losing, as they are now, to Manisaspor.

      Marcus sneers at the TV in his small, undecorated room.

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