In the Demi-Monde, author Rod Rees has conjured up a terrifying virtual reality, a world dominated by history´s most ruthless and bloodthirsty psychopaths--from Holocaust architect Reinhard Heydrich to Torquemada, the Spanish Inquisition´s pitiless torturer, to Josef Stalin´s bloodthirsty right-hand man/monster, the infamous Beria. The Demi-Monde: Winter kicks off a brilliant, high concept series that blends science fiction and thriller, steampunk and dystopian vision. If Neil Gaiman, Neal Stephenson, James Rollins, and Clive Cussler participated in Suzanne Collins´s The Hunger Games, the result might be something akin to the dark and ingenious madness of Rees´s The Demi-Monde: Winter.