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The Kill Order

Book comprehend of The Impale Order
Writer	James Dashner
Cover artist	Philip Strub
Country	Us
Language	English
Series	The Maze Runner serial
Genre	Immature adult, dystopian, science fiction
Publisher	Delacorte Press
Publication engagement	August fourteen, 2012
Media type	Print (hardcover and paperback), audiobook, east-book
Pages	327
ISBN	978-0-385-74288-7
OCLC	793655614
LC Grade	PZ7.D2587 Kil 2012[1]
Followed by	The Fever Code

The Kill Guild is a 2012 young developed dystopian scientific discipline fiction novel written by American author James Dashner and published on August 14, 2012 past Delacorte Press. It is the showtime prequel volume in The Maze Runner series and the fourth installment overall. The book is set prior to the events of The Fever Code and xiii years before The Maze Runner book.^[2]

Development [edit]

Of the novel, Dashner stated he wanted to expand the world but non focus on the principal characters of the main Maze Runner trilogy.^[three] He also stated he had originally planned to write a prequel for the serial, only the plans did not become official until he had completed the third book in the trilogy.^[4]

Plot [edit]

In the prologue, Thomas goes through the Swipe and is put in the Box, as he is one of the candidates who is needed within. He is told that Teresa will get the Swipe as well. Thomas is then sent into the Maze with Teresa, setting the events of The Maze Runner in motion.

Set thirteen years before the prologue and the events of The Maze Runner, the main story of the novel begins in New York Metropolis, when the world is hit by catastrophic solar flares.

Mark and Trina course an brotherhood with Alec, Lana, and others, who rescue them from a grouping of street urchins. The grouping flees to the fictional Lincoln Building to avoid an impending seismic sea wave. The Tsunami ends up beingness made of searing hot water due to the solar flare, killing most of the survivors in New York and giving Marking PTSD. They camp out in the edifice for weeks until a yacht arrives, but the yacht'southward crew takes them hostage and kills i of them in order to persuade them to surrender all the food in the Lincoln edifice. Alec manages to overcome their captors, and they take the yacht as their own and pilot the boat to the Appalachian Beaches.

The story resumes i year afterward the tsunami nigh Asheville, a pocket-sized North Carolina village in which Mark, Trina, Alec, and Lana now live. Huge helicopter-like vehicles, called Bergs, arrive and attack the people in the villages. The coiffure showers their settlement with darts that impale many villagers. Alec and Marker manage to subdue and have over a Berg, but its airplane pilot crashes the vehicle in lodge to avoid answering their questions. They discover that the darts contained a deadly virus, and they start their long journeying back to their hamlet.

Three days later, they reach the hamlet to find that the virus had killed most of the infected. Lana and Trina explain that after the initial death toll, people started living a little longer before they die, and symptoms of infection too changed. Marker and Alec explain that the darts were filled with a virus, and the grouping suspects that the virus is mutating.

Trina and Lana have Mark and Alec to a locked room in which ane of their other friends, Darnell, is confined. Increasingly sick, he had started having hallucinations, obviously from the virus, and begged Trina and Lana to lock him up, which they did. Their friend started maxim that "they" were in his encephalon and eating it away. He kept repeating that "they" were going to eat at his head until cypher was left. He of a sudden starts banging his head against a wall to silence "them" and ends upward killing himself.

Some other girl, Misty, who was his friend goes into the room and comes out reporting a headache that alarms Mark and Alec. They tell Lana and Trina to lock her up as well. Immediately subsequently they confine, she starts interim just similar her dead friend by talking about "them," and she starts to sing an eerie song nearly death.

Mark and Alec take Lana and Trina to find the mysterious attackers' base. The group passes through an abandoned village where they run into a v-year-old daughter, Deedee, who they take with them. She tells them that just like their ain settlement, her village was attacked months earlier. The people turned crazy and left her backside. She shows the group a puncture mark that alarms Alec, who tells the group that Deedee must be infected. They decide to take her with them anyhow since if she had no symptoms months after she had been infected by the virus, she was obviously allowed to it.

Traveling to find the attackers' base, Mark and Alec leave the group for a while to investigate a loud noise. They encounter a cult of infected people that believes that since Deedee is allowed to the virus, different them, she must be some sort of demon. Marking and Alec manage to escape from the cult but find that a forest fire has been started and that Trina, Lana, and Deedee are gone from their campsite. Believing that the three girls in their party must have escaped and gone alee of them to the attackers' base, Marking and Alec continue on to the site.

They arrive at the base and sneak into what appears to be the site of the Post-Flares Coalition (PFC). They eavesdrop on a conversation and realize that the illness is widely known every bit "the Flare" and acquired by a virus that shuts downward the thinking function of people'south brains. They too larn that the girls were given back to the infected cult. They are caught eavesdropping but manage to escape and steal a Berg. Mark and Alec discover weapons inside the Berg; the transvices are guns that evaporate people'southward molecules. They recharge one to use so that they can battle the infected. Mark realizes that the Flare has started to impact his mind.

Their journeying inside the Berg takes them near Asheville, where they find Lana suffering badly from torture by the infected. To terminate her suffering, Alec must kill her with the transvice.(rifle-shaped with an end appearing as an elongated bubble with a spout) They find Trina and Deedee at an quondam house, but Marker realizes that Trina also has the Flare and has forgotten him. They are attacked by the infected but manage to escape to the Berg. As Mark starts to lose his sanity, he recognizes that Deedee is truly allowed to the virus and should be sent to the safety of the PFC base in Alaska. Mark plans on delivering Deedee by using a teleporter, called a flat trans, inside a PFC base in the prophylactic role of Asheville. As they travel, they discover that Alec is also dying from the Flare.

Marker and Trina manage to bring Deedee to the apartment trans and send her through it to safe at the Alaska PFC base. Marker orders Alec to crash the Berg into the flat trans building to prevent the infected from escaping Asheville. Trina remembers Marking, and they kiss simply equally the Berg crashes, killing everyone in the base and destroying the flat trans.

In the book's epilogue, two years later on, authorities from WICKED take a little male child, Stephen, away from his mother, because he is immune to the virus. They rename him Thomas. In the second epilogue, Deedee is revealed to be Teresa from the original trilogy, who sees the infected equally worthy of saving due to her experience with Mark, Trina, and Alec, who tried to salve her and the world in spite of suffering from the infection. When she offset meets Thomas, on the other hand, Thomas tells her that he was grateful to escape his infected parents.

Characters [edit]

• Mark: A 17 twelvemonth-erstwhile boyfriend who survived the onslaught of the Flare and finds himself living with his neighbor Trina and war veterans Alec and Lana, forth with a few others in the Appalachians. After a Berg releases the Flare virus that kills anybody only the four, Marker embarks on a journey to have revenge against those who ordered the execution.
• Alec: A war veteran who came to rescue Mark and Trina shortly before a giant seismic sea wave caused by the melting polar water ice caps hit New York City. He and Lana have since go the ii teenagers' companions since a year before the novel begins.
• Trina: Marker's neighbor and love interest who was with him when the Flare first hitting the Earth and has since lived together with other survivors in a small hamlet in the Appalachians.
• Lana: A war nurse who has a close relationship with Alec. The two accompany Mark and Trina always since the onslaught of the Flare and the immediate tsunami that devastated New York City. She is the first of the four to succumb to the Flare virus.
• Deedee / Teresa: A five-year-old girl whom Marker, Alec, Trina, and Lana, observe in a deserted neighboring village. She is immune to the Flare virus, a status which is demonized by her young man villagers. Due to this, Mark decides to send her to the Post-Flare Coalition (PFC) base in Alaska, where she would be renamed Teresa Agnes. A grown Teresa is also shown in the prologue of the novel, where she becomes a witness to Thomas being delivered to the Maze.
• Anton: A worker for the PFC who tells Marking and Alec about the way the Flare virus is spread. He likewise tells them that he and his coworkers plan to move to the PFC base in Alaska, which gives Marking the idea to send Deedee there.
• Bruce: A worker for the PFC who had a paw in releasing the Flare virus in return for food for him and his coworkers. He complains near the restrictions put into the cure for the virus by the PFC base in Alaska.
• Jed: A bald and earless man who is function of the villagers of Deedee's village. He prevents Marker and Alec from existence killed and recounts to them about the Flare virus which destroyed his village ii months and 3 days before. He later dies due to the virus.
• Toad, Misty, and Darnell: Iii survivors of the Flare who are together referred to as "The Three Stooges". They live aslope Mark, Alec, Trina, and Lana, in the makeshift village in the Appalachians. Darnell is the first casualty of the Flare virus released by a Berg to their village. Misty is establish to be infected just after Marker and Alec return from hijacking the Berg. After Toad puts an end to her misery, he is infected too and Alec kills him out of mercy.
• Baxter: A thirteen-twelvemonth-quondam boy who was part of the original group of survivors who survived the tsunami that hit New York City, alongside Mark, Trina, Alec, and Lana. When they camped out at the Lincoln Building, Baxter was killed by a human being called Boss. He merely appears in flashbacks.
• Boss: A scavenger who ambushed Mark, Trina, Alec, Lana, Baxter, Toad, Misty and Darnell in the Lincoln Building. After killing Baxter, he threatened them to requite him supplies. Mark managed to boot him off to the waters and took command of his vehicle. His female companion and so committed suicide. He simply appears in flashbacks.
• John Michael: The current chancellor of World in Ending: Killzone Experiment Section (WICKED), the company that approved the population control suggested by Katie McVoy to eradicate half of the world population using the Flare virus. He is mentioned in a letter constitute past Mark in Randall Spilker'due south workpad.
• Randall Spilker and Ladena Lichliter: Two members of WICKED who disapproved the method suggested by Katie McVoy to impale half of the population by the VC321xb47 virus, seeing that its mutation is unpredictable. They are only mentioned in correspondence letters found by Mark in Spilker'southward workpad.
• Katie McVoy: A member of WICKED who suggested to chancellor Michael a form of population command by killing half of the population with the VC321xb47 virus, referred to as the Flare virus; thus, she is indirectly responsible for most of the events in the series. She is only mentioned in a letter of the alphabet in Randall Spilker's workpad found by Mark.
• Thomas: A 5-year-quondam male child immune to the Flare virus who is taken by WICKED from his willing mother in the epilogue of the novel. A fellow member of WICKED decides to name him after Thomas Edison after seeing a light bulb in his house. A grown Thomas is also mentioned in the prologue of the novel from the point of view of Teresa, just before he takes his entry to the Maze.

Reception [edit]

Disquisitional reception for The Impale Order was generally positive.^{[5] [half dozen] [7]} Publishers Weekly and KidzWorld both gave positive reviews for the book, with Publishers Weekly noting that fans of the primary Maze Runner series would enjoy information technology.^{[8] [nine]}

Sequel [edit]

On September 27, 2016, a sequel to The Impale Lodge was released, titled The Fever Code; taking place between the events of The Kill Social club and The Maze Runner.

References [edit]

1. ^ "The kill club" (showtime edition). LC Online Catalog. Library of Congress (lccn.loc.gov). Retrieved 2016-12-29.
2. ^ Deutsch, Lindsay. "Sectional cover reveal and excerpt: 'The Kill Order' by James Dashner". USA Today. Retrieved 25 June 2013.
3. ^ Haddock, Sharon (Aug 11, 2012). "'The Kill Order' explains much of the series' story". Deseret News . Retrieved 25 June 2013.
4. ^ Immature, Terrell (February seven, 2013). "Talking with James Dashner most 'The Kill Order'". Herald Extra . Retrieved 25 June 2013.
5. ^ "Review: The Impale Order". Schoolhouse Library Journal (Book Verdict). Retrieved 25 June 2013.
6. ^ "Review: The Kill Order". Booklist. Retrieved 25 June 2013.
7. ^ "Review: The Kill Order". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 25 June 2013.
8. ^ "Children'south Review: The Kill Order". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 25 June 2013.
9. ^ "Volume Review: The Kill Club by James Dashner". Kidz Globe. Retrieved 25 June 2013.

External links [edit]

• The Kill Order Book Trailer on YouTube

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kill_Order

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