First Round
Dead Last Book 1
Nadia Volkov finds a mysterious pair of glasses that overlay her vision with a stealth game HUD. She discovers she's been drafted into an underground elimination game played across her school. Survive or be eliminated.
Dead Last Reading Order
- 1First Round(you are here)
- 2Ghost Protocol
- 3The Warden Revealed
- 4District Play
- 5Shadow Network
- 6Counter-Intel
- 7The Archive
- 8Double Agent
- 9Gamemaster
- 10Final Tag
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