DELIO. Phase One. — R.R. Haywood

*Trigger / Content warning. This book contains scenes of an upsetting and graphic nature.*Brilliant.A gripping story. Harrowing, and often hysterical.This book is very different to anything else out there - and brilliantly so.You'll fall so hard for these characters, you'll wish the world would freeze just so you could stay with them forever.A single bed in a small room.The centre of Piccadilly Circus.A street in New York city outside of a 7-Eleven.A young woman taken from her country.A drug dealer who paid his debt.A suicidal, washed-up cop.The rest of the world now frozen.Unmoving.Unblinking.From RR Haywood, the author of the worldwide bestselling Extracted, and The Code trilogies, and the phenomenal Undead Series - DELIO PHASE ONE is a heart-pounding, relentless, often laugh-out-loud blockbuster adventure.When nearly every person on the planet becomes frozen a small group of survivors must navigate the darkest sides of human behaviour while learning about the creation of the world's first fully self-aware Artificial Intelligence.In London, Yelena is trapped in a room after being sex-trafficked from Romania, and Alfie has one more drop to make then he's free of drug dealing forever.In New York, Detective Joe Stephens is working a case. Life has worn him down. He's ready to end it. Poppy is a film-maker desperate to never go back to the UK, and Tripal is a clerk in a 7-Eleven that has a secret.A secret that might be connected to why every human being on the planet just froze.