Survive or Die

“Deliverance” meets “The Office”. In this hilariously suspenseful novel, Catherine Dilts drops the employees of a manufacturing company into the Colorado wilderness in an entertaining twist on team building:  The winner gets a raise; the loser gets axed. Trouble quickly ensues as the employees’ goals shift from keeping their jobs to staying alive. Dilts assembles a memorable cast of characters that will have you alternately cringing at their antics or laughing out loud at their zany-but-earnest theories about jobs, relationships, and murder. If you work in corporate America or are contemplating a move into that man-eat-man world, Survive or Die will have you running for the

Peace Corps. But you’ll be laughing as you go.

 —Barbara Nickless, author of the

award-winning Sydney Parnell series

You think you’re gonna Survive, but you’re gonna Die. Die. Die.

During a team-building exercise at a survivalist camp, once the setting for a popular reality TV show, the owner of a dysfunctional company receives a death threat. Employees aren’t surprised that someone wants their lecherous, hard-drinking boss dead. The surprise is that he’s not the first casualty. An unpopular photographer’s death doesn’t bring an end to a game designed to humiliate. A rabid environmentalist on a secret mission, a middle-aged mom hoping to revive her lackluster marriage, and a lovelorn mountain man navigate increasing danger as unlikely accidents plague the camp. The week deteriorates from mock survival games to cold reality in the Colorado wilderness, where lost and desperate contestants must Survive or Die.