Death and the White Lion.

This is the Hunger Games with added violence and death. It's a tale of corporation jealousies and conspiracy and one of personal vengeances, of love and of hate. It's a dystopian future with world wide fixation on a reality game with ratings higher than any other, even the Superbowl This is the Amnesia Game.
Simply put, this 30 years running hunting show releases a single convicted killer into the vast confines of the Gulag, his of all unsupervised violent prisoners, without memory. It is his or her one chance of freedom: collect, and restore, the five memory capsules hidden somewhere in the 100 mile compound and reach a single escape point. Then not only is that person pardoned they also receive a financial reward. For the prisoners, too, there is the chance to escape: get the mark and two tickets out are given to the lucky killers. No mark has ever made it out. All is watched on T.V. -, from the hunting and hiding, the fights, and even the memories restored if the any contestant manages to find the capsules. For this, the 30th year, special effects have also been added plus the release of not one, but three, Marks, running for their lives.

The book is cleverly presented, mixing the survival struggles of one of the three Marks with the vicious power struggles within the broadcasting corporation and the flashback memory fragments which beset the man as he releases the capsule contents to himself (and, of course, the audience). And there is another man who, for personal reasons, is hunting him for his own reasons,, a man simply known as Cut. This combination of themes keeps the storyline fascinating in a way that a simple action plot would not.
Narration by Eric McAnanallen is good, clear and well intoned, the voicing of the main protagonist adding character, and the other dialogue also somewhat differentiated. But despite this, the reading felt flat: more excitement needed to be injected at appropriate points. But it was, overall, a good narration which, along with the story, held this reader's attention.

I was fortunate in being freely gifted, at my request, a complimentary copy of The Amnesia Game, from the rights holder via Audiobook Boom. And now I am hooked. This is not a completed story but the first part of a three part serial. To find the answers to so many questions (even including who is Mark I?) I will definitely be waiting for the next installment. Recommended - but remember this is not the whole story.

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