From James Dashner author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Maze Runner series comes the
first book in the bestselling Mortality Doctrine series an edge-of-your-seat cyber-adventure
trilogy that includes The Rule of Thoughts and The Game of Lives. Includes a sneak peek of
The Fever Code the highly anticipated conclusion to the Maze Runner series-the novel that
finally reveals how the Maze was built! The VirtNet offers total mind and body immersion
and the more hacking skills you have the more fun it is. Why bother following the rules when
it's so easy to break them? But some rules were made for a reason. Some technology is too
dangerous to fool with. And one gamer has been doing exactly that with murderous results.
The government knows that to catch a hacker you need a hacker. And they've been watching
Michael. If he accepts their challenge Michael will need to go off the VirtNet grid to the
back alleys and corners of the system human eyes have never seen-and it's possible that the
line between game and reality will be blurred forever. Praise for the Mortality Doctrine
Series: "Dashner takes full advantage of the Matrix-esque potential for asking 'what is
real.'" -io9.com "Set in a world taken over by virtual reality gaming the series perfectly
capture[s] Dashner's hallmarks for inventiveness teen dialogue and an ability to add twists
and turns like no other author." -MTV.com "A brilliant visceral gamified mash-up of The
Matrix and Inception guaranteed to thrill even the non-gaming crowd." -Christian Science
Monitor
