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Words kill.
They recruited Emily from the streets. They said it was because she's good with words.
They'll live to regret it.
Wil survived something he shouldn't have. But he doesn't remember it.
Now they're after him and he doesn't know why.
There's a word, they say. It shouldn't have got out. But it did.
And they want it back...
Find out why in one of the most mind-bending, page-turning, thrilling novels you'll ever read.
*Winner of the Aurealis Award for science fiction and GoodReads Choice Awards finalist for best science fiction*
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Brilliantly realised... strikingly relevant... a resounding success * SFX * Gripping... a pitch-perfect thriller, a jetpack of a plot that rocketed me from page one to page 400 in a single afternoon -- Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing Truly original... a crack-paced thriller... smart and tons of fun * Australian * A spellbinding, intelligent read...a freewheeling plot intermeshed with linguistic theory and some genuinely creepy horror set-pieces * Guardian * Dazzling...An intelligent, raw thriller from one of Australia's finest * Booktopia * Highly entertaining and engrossing... characters that are both complicated and likeable * SciFi Now * Insanely good. Dark and twisted and sweet and humane all at once. -- Lauren Beukes, author of The Shining Girls and Zoo City Crazily inventive...Barry's smartest dystopia yet * io9.com * Best thing I've read in a long, long time... a masterpiece -- Hugh Howey, bestselling author of Wool Sophisticated and laden with subtext... clearly reaffirms Barry's status as a gifted purveyor of suspense * Time Out New York * Wonderfully crafted, dark yet humorous, fast-paced and tragic in turn * National * An extraordinarily fast, funny, cerebral thriller -- Lev Grossman, <i>Time</i> Delightfully high-concept...think Noam Chomsky meets Christopher Nolan * Vogue * Dazzling and spectacularly inventive. A novel that jams itself sideways into your brain and stays there. -- M.R. Carey, author of The Girl with All the Gifts Mind-bending...an action novel that nicely exercises the brain as well as the heart rate * Shelf Awareness * A strange combination of romance, thriller and science fiction... The words brilliant and exemplary aren't adequate enough to convey the amazing craft of LEXICON. * Associated Press * The year's smartest thriller * Time *More details
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