The mall doors are locked and there’s only one way out… over a pile of dead bodies. A retired marine trying to help a sick brother in arms. A struggling single mother. A girl selling her body online. A crooked cop. A desperate college student. Five strangers who couldn’t be more different except for one thing—financial trouble. When Vortex, a popular online personality, offers them and others the chance to win life-changing money, each joins the game for their own reasons. The rules are simple enough. One winner will take home five million dollars. The catch? All the others must die. Now the players are pitted against each other in a bloody battle to survive. With snipers at each exit and bombs set on timers to blow up the building and everyone in it, the contestants will resort to inhuman acts of violence to escape with the prize…and their lives. With no one to trust and the corpses piling up, who will be declared the winner? Black Friday is a visceral splatterpunk novel. If you like thought-provoking gore, action-packed horror, and savage endings, then you’ll love James Kaine’s blood-soaked battle.