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Part I · New York

STILL

The city stops for four seconds. Nobody notices but you.

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It's 23:58 in New York. Every so often the whole city freezes — traffic, rain, eight million people — for four seconds, then carries on as if nothing happened. Kai Mercer, a hacker in Brooklyn, is the only one who notices. Then he learns to call a still himself. Someone is using the gaps. And whatever they're planning happens Friday, at the opening bell, 09:30.

The city frozen mid-motion during a still

Stop the world

Press F and New York holds its breath. Walk through a frozen street, read what no one else can see, and get out before it moves again.

A night street in Midtown Manhattan

A real New York

Brooklyn, the Bridge, Wall Street, the Empire State Building, Koreatown, Times Square, the subway — built from the real city, alive at night.

Kai's apartment in Brooklyn at night

A thriller in chapters

The Timekeepers, the Governor, a bell that must not ring. A fully voiced story with a phone, a city to drive, and people who talk back.

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