BZRK - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1405264306 ISBN 13: 9781405264303

Publisher: HarperCollins

Synopsis

The most breathtaking and exhilarating ride you can’t imagine. It’s The Matrix meets Inner Space in a futuristic battle for survival and the first in an incredible new action thriller series from Michael Grant, author of GONE.

These are no ordinary soldiers. This is no ordinary war. Welcome to the nano, where the only battle is for sanity. Losing is not an option when a world of madness is at stake. Time is running out for the good guys. But what happens when you don’t know who the good guys really are?

It’s BZRK. Noah and Sadie: newly initiated to an underground cell so covert that they don’t even know each other’s names. Here they will learn what it means to fight on a nano level. Soon they will become the deadliest warriors the world has ever seen. Vincent: feels nothing, cares for no one; fighting his own personal battle with Bug Man, the greatest nano warrior alive.  The Armstrong Twins: wealthy, privileged, fanatical.

Are they the saviours of mankind or authors of the darkest conspiracy the world has ever seen? The nano is uncharted territory. A terrifying world of discovery. And everything is to play for . . .

The coolest author of books for teens writing today is back with yet another mind-blowing Young Adult series.

Warning: BZRK contains some scenes of violence.

Praise for Gone: ‘. . . exciting, high-tension story told in a driving, torrential narrative that never lets up. This is great fiction. I love these books.’ Stephen King, bestselling author.

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Review:

* Grant, who showed a flair for grandiose conceptual gambits in his Gone series, here goes big by going small. With science as soft as pudding (though, really, who cares pudding is delicious), he envisions nanotechnology so advanced that brains can be rewired, memories manipulated, and senses hacked by robots and gene-spliced creatures the size of dust mites. A war between two ultra-secretive, competing ideologies one championing free will, the other promising enforced happiness is being fought down in the meat, and Grant gleefully exposes the biological ickiness of the body going about its everyday business in paranoia-inducing scenes of nanobots scuttling across spongy brain matter or plunging probes into optic nerves. At the same time, he doles out eviscerating loads of violence on the macro level as two teens are enlisted to help stop a maniacal baddie and his team of twitchers, who are planning to infiltrate the heads of the world s most powerful nations. With simmering pots of sexual tension, near-nonstop action, and the threat of howling madness or brain-melting doom around every corpuscular corner, Grant s new series is off to a breathless, bombastic start. - "Booklist, "Starred Review
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YA fiction at it s best. It's a combination science fiction/adventure/thriller all written brilliantly to entice the reader into a terrifying world. Examiner.com
Squeamish as I am, Grant has me hooked with the compelling characters that populate the Go "BZRK" storyworld. Michael Anderson, "WIRED" magazine
Grant utilizes contemporary themes and memorable characters, along with the possibilities of emerging technology to craft aningenious world not too far removed from our own. The intelligent presentation will likely appeal to a broad audience. PopCultureGuy
If you are anything like me then "BZRK" will blow your mind. "BZRK" is very different from pretty much any YA book out there at the moment, and the closest I can come to expressing how itis continuing to play on my mind almost two weeks later, is to liken it to William Gibson's "Neuromancer" which had a similar effect on me many years ago. "BZRK" is a gamechanger for YA literature. The Book Zone
This novel is full of the intricacies of the human body and non-stop action on all fronts. An intricately written science fiction thriller, "BZRK" offers an in-depthlook into a war raging deep within the human body. "Deseret News
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Praise for "Gone," by Michael Grant:
An ALA Popular Paperback for Young Adults
"This intense, marvelously plotted, paced, and characterized story will immediately garner comparisons to Lord of the Flies...A potent mix of action and thoughtfulness-centered around good and evil, courage and cowardice-renders this a tour-de-force that will leave readers dazed, disturbed, and utterly breathless." -" Booklist
""If Stephen King had written LORD OF THE FLIES, it might have been a little like this...Excited to see where [Grant] will take [the reader] with this new series." - "Voya""

About the Author:

Michael Grant Michael Grant has spent much of his life on the move. Raised in a military family, he attended ten schools in five states of the USA, as well as three schools in France. Even as an adult he kept moving, and in fact he became a writer in part because it was one of the few jobs that wouldn't tie him down. His fondest dream is to spend a whole year circumnavigating the globe and visiting every continent. Yes, even Antarctica. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with his wife, Katherine Applegate, their two children, and far too many pets. In addition to his best-selling Gone series, described by Stephen King as “high-tension stories told in a driving, torrential narrative”, Michael has also written books such as the BZRK, Magnificent 12 and Animorphs series as well as the standalone book for young adults Eve and Adam.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• ISBN 10: 1405264306
• ISBN 13: 9781405264303
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416