James Dashner: The Kill Order

In his best-selling books The Maze Runner, The Scorch Trials and The Death Cure, Utah author James Dashner introduced readers to a post-apocalyptic world where young people are being put through torturous, life-threatening tests that may hold the key to the survival of humanity. Now, he explores how that world came to be in the “prequel” adventure The Kill Order.

Before there were the children in The Glade, there were Mark and Trina, two ordinary teens who are part of a world rocked by the disastrous results of solar flares hitting the Earth. The survivors face a difficult road, even as they unite to make the most of the new world in which they find themselves. But the horrors they’ve already experienced will then be magnified by the virus that readers of Dashner’s other books already know too well. How did the people of Earth come to be carriers of that horrible disease? And will it be possible for our protagonists to find a way to survive the terror we know is coming? (Scott Renshaw)