Reset

When players of the online game Dystopia begin taking their own lives after receiving a single chilling message — "Your life is a failure. Press reset." — the deaths seem impossible to connect. Hitomi Shinohara, newly widowed after her husband's inexplicable suicide, starts playing the game to understand what drove him to it, while Shunsuke Kitajima, a young genius hacker recruited by the government, hunts the truth from inside the virtual world.

Tetsuya Tsutsui's single-volume thriller on the porous border between games and reality — and the darker uses of both. (Original Japanese title: リセット.)