Rabbits: A Novel

Terry Miles

Jun 2021 · RABBITS Book 1 · Sold by Del Rey

About this ebook

A deadly underground game might just be altering reality itself in this all-new adventure set in the world of the hit Rabbits podcast.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL • “A wild ride . . . impossible to put down.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

It’s an average work day. You’ve been wrapped up in a task, and you check the clock when you come up for air—4:44 p.m. You check your email, and 44 unread messages have built up. With a shock, you realize the date is April 4—4/4. And when you get in your car to drive home, your odometer reads 44,444.

Coincidence? Or have you just seen the edge of a rabbit hole?

Rabbits is a mysterious alternate reality game so vast it uses the entire world as its canvas.

Since the game started in 1959, ten iterations have appeared and nine winners have been declared. The identities of these winners are unknown.

So is their reward, which is whispered to be NSA or CIA recruitment, vast wealth, immortality, or perhaps even the key to the secrets of the universe itself.

But the deeper you get, the more dangerous the game becomes. Players have died in the past—and the body count is rising.

And now the eleventh round is about to begin.

Enter K—a Rabbits obsessive who has been trying to find a way into the game for years. That path opens when K is approached by billionaire Alan Scarpio, rumored to be the winner of the sixth iteration. Scarpio says that something has gone wrong with the game and that K needs to fix it before Eleven starts, or the whole world will pay the price.

Five days later, Scarpio is declared missing.

Two weeks after that, K blows the deadline: Eleven begins.

And suddenly, the fate of the entire universe is at stake.

Ratings and reviews

Epic in the sense there's really nothing quite like it out there, not that I've ever seen anyway. The twists and turns kept me engaged throughout. I could have used less of the "we had to eat" or "we needed sleep" that was extremely overused through the entire book. Quite fun for those who like a puzzle or at times a completely confusing conundrum of a read. The ending was less than satisfying but the characters are phenomenal. This is a book that's written to strike a cord with nerds and millennials, it's good at that and making you feel like nothing is as real as you believe.

Exceptional!!! I read A LOT, but this book blew me away. The detail and imagination that made the story seem some how feasible, kept me up late into the night, (well morning if I'm being honest). I can't say enough amazing things about this novel! Love Love Love It!!!

I’ve fallen down the rabbit hole various times in my life, but never anything like this! This is a fast paced story with twists and turns that had me turning the pages without pause. It was like pulling a thread on a sweater and watching it continue to unravel as it led me from one clue to another, each one more bizarre and fascinating. I was completely captivated by everything in this story. There were a few times I was lost due to the more scientific information that was being revealed. My mind refuses to understand science or math so I believe those particular moments were my own fault. Despite some of the terms and situations, I was still able to follow the storyline. With characters that kept me invested in their welfare, a plot that pulled me along with it, and an ending that had me wide eyed with astonishment, I ended this book happily exhausted from the journey these characters took me on.

About the author

Terry Miles is an award-winning filmmaker; creator of the Public Radio Alliance and that network’s series of hit podcasts: Tanis, Rabbits, Faerie, and The Last Movie; and co-creator of The Black Tapes. He splits his time between the dark emerald gloom of the Pacific Northwest and sunny Los Angeles.