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A renowned food critic whose brutal reviews have ended careers and closed restaurants across Europe. Unknown to him, his detailed writing about exclusive dining locations has been used by human traffickers to identify and target vulnerable individuals. He's spent years suppressing guilt about the people who've disappeared from his life, convincing himself their vanishings were coincidental.

The mysterious figure behind The Last Supper Club, whose identity remains hidden until the final course. A master of molecular gastronomy and psychological manipulation, they have spent years researching Marcus's past and the network that used his reviews to hunt victims. Their true connection to Marcus will be revealed as the meal progresses.

Marcus's closest friend from age seven to twelve, who disappeared during a camping trip in the Bavarian Alps. She was brilliant, adventurous, and the only person who truly understood Marcus's early passion for food and writing. Her disappearance was the first in a series of vanishings that would haunt Marcus's adult life, though he's never connected them until now.