The Eye of Minds

By James Dashner,

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From James Dashner, the author of the New York Times bestselling Maze Runner series, comes an edge-of-your seat adventure. The Eye of Minds is the first book in The Mortality Doctrine, a series set in a world of hyper advanced technology, cyberterrorists, and gaming beyond your wildest dreams ...and your…

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While not science fiction in the classical sense, it is a story of a different kind of world where virtual reality and reality blur. The main character almost lives in a virtual reality gaming program, but when he is to do something in the real world, he finds he can’t really tell the two apart and that leads to grave consequences.

In James Dashner’s The Eye of Minds, you’re introduced to the VirtNet – a worldwide virtual reality server where anything is possible. It follows the story of three best friends who use their skills as hackers to bend this virtual reality to their will. They throw fireballs at each other, race across landscapes you could only wish to see in real life, and just plain have fun after school.

In this book, you get to read about how these three friends are called upon to use their hacker skills to help stop an assassin who’s targeting other users on…

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