A phenomenally successful debut—a New York Times, Sunday Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestseller. #1 bestseller title and 7,863 rave reviews on Amazon.com. Nearly 50,000 ratings and 7,800 reviews on Goodreads.com.” The Bunker" by Hugh Howie is one of the most striking new products in the recently formed genre, covering such diverse projects as "Lost", "Twin Peaks", "The Hunger Games". This is not only a powerful action game, equally exciting on screen and on paper, but also wonderful human stories about love and hatred, loyalty and betrayal, nobility and deceit. People have been living in a giant bunker, more than a hundred floors deep, for several generations. They believe that the world is dead, the air is poisoned and going to the surface is deadly. They learn about what is happening outside using huge screens on which images from several external cameras are broadcast. Day after day, looking at the lifeless gray landscape, people meekly obey the established rules, the main one of which is not to try to leave the bunker. However, the established system cracks when Sheriff Holston, who has strictly enforced the laws for many years, unexpectedly decides to go to the surface. This desperate step entails a whole series of mysterious incidents, which the new sheriff, the smart and unyielding Juliet, a mechanic from the lower floors, will have to deal with. Having started an investigation and plunged into a web of intrigue, Juliet herself finds herself in danger, but she is ready to go to the end to reveal the main secret of the bunker. “Illusion” is the first of three novels in the series.