The boys then discover tattoos on their necks that assign them specific roles and fates.

Aris explains he escaped from a similar Maze experiment, Group B, in which he was the only male. They also find that Teresa is missing from her room, and in her place is a boy, Aris Jones. Thomas and the others escape into the facility's common area and discover that their rescuers are dead. Cranks were normal citizens before the Flare, when they became crazed zombie-like killers. The disease attacks the brain and causes victims to lose their humanity, rendering them violent and insane creatures.

Thomas is woken by a telepathic communication with Teresa, the only girl from the Glade, who is afraid.Īs Thomas wakes up, he finds that the facility is being attacked by Cranks, aggressive zombie-like people that have been infected by a plague known as the Flare. Thomas is sleeping in the dormitory with the other teenagers, known as the Gladers, who escaped from the Maze in the previous book and had been brought by a group of rescuers. A film adaptation was released on 18 September 2015 by 20th Century Fox. It follows The Maze Runner, and is followed by The Death Cure. The novel was published on 18 September 2010 by Delacorte Press. The Scorch Trials is a 2010 young adult post-apocalyptic dystopian science fiction novel written by American author James Dashner and the second book, fourth chronologically, in The Maze Runner series. Print ( hardcover and paperback), audiobook, e-book

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