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Lord of the Flies meets Gone in this riveting dystopian thriller, which left New York Times bestselling author James Dashner exclaiming I loved it! The twist behind it all is my favorite since Ender's Game.

Benson Fisher thought that a scholarship to Maxfield Academy would be the ticket out of his dead-end life.

He was wrong.

Now he's trapped in a school that's surrounded by a razor-wire fence, where video cameras monitor his every moveand where breaking the rules equals death.

All Benson wants is to find a way out. But when he stumbles upon the real secret the school has been hiding, he realizes that escape may be impossible.