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  1. Welcome
  2. Dedication
  3. To the reader
  4. BOOK ONE
  5. 1
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  7. 3
  8. 4
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  10. 6
  11. 7
  12. 8
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  14. 10
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  20. 16
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  22. 18
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  25. 21
  26. 22
  27. 23
  28. BOOK TWO
  29. 24
  30. 25
  31. 26
  32. 27
  33. 28
  34. 29
  35. 30
  36. 31
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  51. 46
  52. 47
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  54. 49
  55. 50
  56. BOOK THREE
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  60. 54
  61. 55
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  86. EPILOGUE
  87. Books by James Patterson
  88. Cover Page

The mission, one of a dozen attempted rescues we’d undertaken in the last month, was our worst failure yet. We were trying to liberate maybe a hundred kidnapped kids from a New Order testing facility. But our intelligence must have been off. Instead of victimized kids, the building held a platoon of New Order soldiers. They were waiting for us.

“Actually, it’s lucky any of us—,” I start to say.

“Find her!” The speakers mounted in the plaza start vibrating with The One’s irate voice. “There’s another conspirator in the crowd! She has flaming-red hair! Close the courtyard exits. Capture her now!”

Whit grabs a gray hat off a passing businessman and plunks it down on my head.

“Tuck your hair in, quick,” he says.

I’m doing just that when a policeman spots me. He’s a couple of dozen yards away.

Now he’s grabbing for the whistle at the end of a cord around his neck… and he’ll soon have the attention of every soldier in the plaza. Not to mention that of The One, whom I hate to mention.

But then a small black figure leaps up and knocks the policeman down flat on his rear.

Whit and I exchange looks of surprise. He says, “Did you just—?”

But before Whit can finish, the black figure—an old woman—is at our side. She presses into my hand a crumpled, gritty piece of paper. “Take it, take it!”

I swear she’s the weirdest-looking creature I’ve ever seen in my life, and yet I know her from somewhere.

“Who are—?”

She cuts me off. “Follow this. Go! I’m a friend. Run. Run. Don’t stop for a single breath, or it’s over. For all of us. Go!”

Somehow she gets behind us, and then she delivers a kick to both of our butts. That sends us staggering into the surging crowd.

I immediately turn back… but there’s no sign of her.

“You heard her,” says Whit. “Go! Now! Go!”

James Patterson was selected by teens across America as the Children’s Choice Book Awards Author of the Year in 2010. He is the internationally bestselling author of the highly praised Maximum Ride novels, the Witch & Wizard series, Med Head, Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas, and the detective series featuring Alex Cross and the Women’s Murder Club. His books have sold more than 205 million copies worldwide, making him one of the bestselling authors of all time. He lives in Florida.

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