The Crying Minds is a psychological crime thriller series set over time in London, UK, Europe and China. Roze, a young woman with extreme emotional intelligence and mind-reading skills due to an illegal human AI experiment, becomes a new age MI5 agent caught in a fight against sadistic women hater and game developing psychopath, Hydra, through brainwashed minds, the secret service and the dark web.

The Battle is the third book in the Crying Minds pentalogy - following the success of the first two books The Secret and The Hunt of the Crying Minds.

A disturbing wide-scale abduction case is shaking the whole of the United Kingdom to its core and creating turmoil in all police departments. With no leads but dead bodies piling up and the clock ticking, the collaborating police forces, have no other choice than to ask the MI5 for help.

Roze, now 24, with artificially enhanced mind-reading powers and EQ abilities, steps into her new office at MI5. She is immediately thrown into a world of interrogation and profiling to crack the most intricate and powerful criminal minds until a familiar MO requires Roze's full attention. There is one person who can be behind this evil situation, and only Roze knows who...

Hydra's new heads spread like vermin across the globe as his computer game PoRuc recruits and enlightens more followers. The technology has caught up with his imagination. He is strategically in the right place. It's time to accelerate the game development to the next level, and for that, he needs plenty of healthy, confident blonds to fill up his research chambers.

David is getting dragged in deeper against his own will into Hydra's manipulating computer game on the dark web. The higher David is climbing the ranks in the game, the more he puts Roze in danger.

Readers say: "I am so sad that I have finished the book, I didn't want it to end. Gruesome and gripping, intense and insane! The author has an amazing imagination and takes you through so many emotions. Thank you for an amazing read - desperate to see where it goes next! I'll be going back and reading all 3 in the series now...."

"Have been waiting for the 3rd instalment having thoroughly enjoyed the 1st 2 and this did not disappoint. It's gripping from the start with new characters who are just as fascinating as the already established ones. The underlying themes cover a wide range of topics including people trafficking through to gender identity; all wrapped up in a gripping and twisted storyline. Bring on the next one!"

Charity: A.L.Berggren supports charities, close to her heart, by donating 15% of her book profits.

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