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They eventually run into each other and join each other. Ben and Ringer decide to bolt with the rest of Squad 53, but Ben insists on going back for Sammy, who was left on base due to his age.Д«en and Cassie both enter the base. It is revealed that the Others are masquerading as a resistance force, abducting and training the children into a fighting force, which they will deploy as the Fifth Wave to end humanity. While deployed, Ben and his squadmate Ringer start to piece together their true purposes and learn that Wright-Patterson is actually run by the Others. The two, though uneasily, coordinate a plan to extract Sammy then begin executing it. He then helped her because he had fallen in love and couldn't bring himself to kill her. After the two set out, Cassie and Evan are attacked by a squad from Wright-Patterson, and, after seeing how easily Evan dispatches them, Cassie finds out that Evan was the Silencer who originally shot her. Sammy is placed in Squad 53 and befriends squadmate Ben Parish, who is coincidentally Cassie's long-lost crush from high school. It is revealed over the course of the story that the soldiers are recruiting (truly, abducting) children into an army, telling them they are the last hope for fighting back against the Others. Meanwhile, Sammy arrives at Wright-Patterson AFB, which is now a 'training camp' called Camp Haven. Cassie is shot by an Other-affiliated sniper, a 'Silencer', from the woods on her trek, and is later rescued by Evan Walker, who nurses her back to health and agrees to help her find her brother. The book opens in the midst of the Fourth Wave and follows Cassie's quest to find her brother, Sammy, after he is taken by U.S.

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The 5th Wave is the first book in the series and was released on May 7, 2013. So, when I was working through how the attacks might work, I realized first that it couldnвЂ™t just be one attack-the worldвЂ™s too big-youвЂ™d have to do it in stages, or waves.' The first book was officially published on May 7, 2013. They would learn how we think, they would learn about what do humans do in times of crisis, and they would turn that to their own advantage. 'It was basically trying to think like an alien, and considering the fact that if they are out there, they probably wouldnвЂ™t attack without getting to know us very, very well. conversations where your mind starts going, and I asked her, on the spur of the moment, 'What is your greatest fear?' She said, without hesitation, 'Alien abduction.'' Yancey continued on, telling how he developed the plot for the series. Yancey stated in an interview with Lightspeed Magazine that the basis for The 5th Wave came from a question he asked his wife about her worst fears.

The story follows a group of children as they try to find their way through a world that is slowly reverting to the Stone Age. After the first four waves have decimated the human population, the remaining populace is terrifyingly awaiting the arrival a new Fifth Wave, one that will supposedly wipe the human race clean off the planet. They exist in an unknown form and attack through a series of waves. should do for aliens what Twilight did for vampires.'-USAToday.Earth is systematically attacked by a group of aliens known as 'the Others'. I couldn't turn the pages fast enough.'-Justin Cronin, The New York Times Book Review But Cassie must choose: between trust and despair, between defiance and surrender, between life and death. Beguiling and mysterious, Evan Walker may be Cassie's only hope for rescuing her brother-or even saving herself. To stay alone is to stay alive, Cassie believes, until she meets Evan Walker.

Who have scattered Earth's last survivors. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. Now, it's the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. The Passage meets Ender's Game in an epic new series from award-winning author Rick Yancey.ДЄfter the 1st wave, only darkness remains.

'Remarkable, not-to-be-missed-under-any-circumstances.'- Entertainment Weekly (Grade A)