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John Dixon’s critically acclaimed Phoenix Isle reads like “Lord of the Flies matches Wolverine and Great Hand Luke” (F. Paul Wilson, originator of Repairman Jack port). For followers from the Bourne Identity, Alex Rider, and Melissa Marr.

The judge told Carl that 1 day he’d need to decide exactly what sort of person he would become. But on Phoenix Isle, the choice will be made for him.

A champion boxer with a clear hook about Phoenix Island and a brief temper, sixteen-year-old Carl Freeman has been shuffled from foster house to foster house. He can’t seem to stay out of trouble-using his fists to guard weaker classmates from bullies. His latest incident sends his opponent towards the emergency room, and today the court is usually sending Carl towards the worst put on earth: Phoenix Isle.

Classified being a “terminal facility,” it’s the finish of the range for delinquents who have no home, zero family, and no upcoming. Located somewhere remote the coast of the United States-and immune to its laws-the island is certainly a grueling Spartan-style training operate by sadistic drill sergeants who display no mercy to their youthful, orphan trainees. Sentenced to stay until his eighteenth birthday, Carl programs to try out by the guidelines, so he makes close friends along with his wisecracking bunkmate, Ross, and a secret gray-eyed girl named Octavia. But he makes enemies, as well, and after several tough scrapes, he earns himself the nickname “Hollywood” and a string of punishments, including a brutal evening in the “sweatbox.” But that’s nothing at all in comparison to what awaits him in the “Chop Shop”-a secret federal government lab where Carl is usually given something he under no circumstances dreamed of.

A new lifestyle…A brand-new body. A fresh brain. Gifts in the fatherly Old Guy, who wants to transform Carl into something he’s uncertain he wants to become. Because of this is no ordinary government project. Phoenix Island is usually ground zero for the future of combat intelligence.

And for Carl, it’s simply the starting…