![]() ![]() There’s an inventively grim reason for that. ![]() A more imminent concern for the group is that the Erasers, so keen to chase them and capture them seem to have disappeared. If ITEX can duplicate Max, there’s no reason their science doesn’t extend to duplicating one of the others also, so it’s a credible possibility. Is he just being manipulated? Perhaps not. Here it’s Fang being told that one of his friends has turned traitor. ![]() Maximum Ride thrives on creating suspense by letting readers in on something not all the cast know and James Patterson’s plot generates these revelations efficiently. They’re very murky, and the end of this opener chapter reveals their intention to reduce the global population by 50%. Maximum Ride 4 ended with Max meeting her doppelganger at the ITEX Corporation. She’s also been told her destiny is to save the world. Their escape wasn’t as absolute as they believed, and they’re now on the run from those working for the Institute, while Max is hearing voices in her head claiming to be helping her. She, Angel, Fang, Gasman, Iggy and Nudge can all fly, and have gradually developed other abilities, the youngest of them able to read minds being very useful. Maximum Ride named herself when younger, one of a group of six children who believed they’d escaped the Institute and were living in seclusion. After four previous volumes of a continuing story, perhaps a recap is in order. ![]()
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