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Attrition
When a billionaire game manufacturer finds out he's dying from an incurable disease, he summons three former close friends from college to pilot a new murder mystery game his company's developing.
Estranged since graduation, each has fallen on hard times and see the invitation as a way of soliciting financial assistance from their wealthy friend. But there's a reason that the men have not talked to each other since college and coming together means opening old wounds.
After the billionaire dies from strange circumstances, the friends decide to continue to play in the hopes of collecting a sizeable sum given to the person that solves the game. When it's revealed that the game was designed to expose the individual guilty of a murder forty years ago in college, the true meaning of friendship is tested as the men compete not only for the prize but also to stay alive in the process.
Estranged since graduation, each has fallen on hard times and see the invitation as a way of soliciting financial assistance from their wealthy friend. But there's a reason that the men have not talked to each other since college and coming together means opening old wounds.
After the billionaire dies from strange circumstances, the friends decide to continue to play in the hopes of collecting a sizeable sum given to the person that solves the game. When it's revealed that the game was designed to expose the individual guilty of a murder forty years ago in college, the true meaning of friendship is tested as the men compete not only for the prize but also to stay alive in the process.
302 pages, Paperback
Published June 26, 2020
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Emilio Iasiello
12 books25 followersEmilio Iasiello is an author and screenwriter.
Books available at http://amzn.to/1jh09sy.
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Emilio Iasiello authored the 2013 anthology of short stories Why People Do What They Do and the 2008 book Chasing the Green. He has published short fiction and poetry in numerous academic and literary journals. His stories have appeared in Buffalo Spree Magazine, The
Larcom Review, Oasis, and Krater Quarterly, and his poems have appeared in the New York Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, The California Quarterly, The Washington Review, and The Wilshire Review, among others.
An avid screenwriter, he has optioned several screenplays, three of which have been produced into films: Saint Christopher (2002), P.J. (2008), and Chasing the Green (2009). Chasing the Green won the Award for Excellence in Filmmaking at the 2010 Canada International Film Festival and the Best Supporting Actress in a Feature Film Award at the 2009 Los Angeles Action on Film International Film Festival. P.J. received the Best Actress Award in the 2008 Miami Underground Film Festival. A fourth screenplay, Dead of Knight, is currently in post-production.
A devotee of the theatre, Emilio has had his stage plays produced in Baltimore, MD; Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles, CA; New York, NY; and London, UK.
Books available at http://amzn.to/1jh09sy.
Info on filmed screenplays available at http://imdb.to/1bdsqvJ
Emilio Iasiello authored the 2013 anthology of short stories Why People Do What They Do and the 2008 book Chasing the Green. He has published short fiction and poetry in numerous academic and literary journals. His stories have appeared in Buffalo Spree Magazine, The
Larcom Review, Oasis, and Krater Quarterly, and his poems have appeared in the New York Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, The California Quarterly, The Washington Review, and The Wilshire Review, among others.
An avid screenwriter, he has optioned several screenplays, three of which have been produced into films: Saint Christopher (2002), P.J. (2008), and Chasing the Green (2009). Chasing the Green won the Award for Excellence in Filmmaking at the 2010 Canada International Film Festival and the Best Supporting Actress in a Feature Film Award at the 2009 Los Angeles Action on Film International Film Festival. P.J. received the Best Actress Award in the 2008 Miami Underground Film Festival. A fourth screenplay, Dead of Knight, is currently in post-production.
A devotee of the theatre, Emilio has had his stage plays produced in Baltimore, MD; Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles, CA; New York, NY; and London, UK.
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February 22, 2023
Psychology Class Didn’t Prepare Me For This!
I love books that offer mystery and psychological complexities that makes the reader question how they would handle certain situations. Mr. Iasiello masterfully places troubled individuals in a scenario where only troubled solutions can arise and I love that. So many times I asked myself what would I do, but I didn’t want to dwell on the question too much because I wondered how similar would I react? How different would my decisions be? This is the sort of story writing that I love. I thoroughly enjoyed this story and cannot wait to read more work from this author!
I love books that offer mystery and psychological complexities that makes the reader question how they would handle certain situations. Mr. Iasiello masterfully places troubled individuals in a scenario where only troubled solutions can arise and I love that. So many times I asked myself what would I do, but I didn’t want to dwell on the question too much because I wondered how similar would I react? How different would my decisions be? This is the sort of story writing that I love. I thoroughly enjoyed this story and cannot wait to read more work from this author!
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