Make Believe

Everybody needs an imaginary friend. Ollie Mercer's happens to be a serial killer.Eight-year-old Ollie only wants someone who will listen to him. Then he draws Make-Believe-a towering figure in a patchwork suit, white gloves and a tiny bowler hat.Make-Believe loves games, biscuits and Ollie.He also believes anyone who hurts his best friend should be "tidied up."Twenty years later, Ollie has built a carefully ordinary life with no games, no movable chairs and absolutely no imaginary companions. His precautions fail when a lonely girl discovers one of his childhood drawings-and Make-Believe returns with a red toybox full of unpleasant surprises.Soon the bodies are piling up, the internet has turned a murderer into a hero, and millions of people are inviting their own versions of Make-Believe into the world. Once governments decide his unique approach to rehabilitation might be useful, compulsory kindness becomes the most frightening punishment of all.Ollie must stop the monster he gave a face to before the entire world is forced to play along.Because Make-Believe has rules.Nobody cheats.Nobody leaves.Best friends finish together.Darkly funny, gleefully macabre and packed with deadly childhood games, Make Believe is a comedic horror novel about loneliness, friendship and the danger of imagining exactly what you wished for.