The novels center on six college students who apply to a prestigious IT company that is hiring prospects straight out of graduation. The company tells the six students to get together and discuss their possible work. While they think they will get into the company together, the students are told in the middle of the process that they must decide among themselves on which one of them will get the job, which turns them all into rivals. To add to their paranoia, each all receive an envelop that says one person in the group is a murderer.