board, finds out that his program is being shut down. Hatch, on a boat for a meeting of the Elgen, Inc. Mitchell stays at home, and Grace goes with the voice's men for her own safety.Īfter over a week of hanging around and training, they are contacted and leave for Peru. The voice sends a representative to collect the data from Grace's upload in exchange for passage to Peru. Taylor narrowly avoids a disaster when her friends recognize her on a bagel run by 'rebooting' them. Vey is being held in the Elgen facility in Puerto Maldonado, Peru. Ostin finds Mitchell's heavy-duty computer and uploads Grace, staying up all night to discover that Mrs. Mitchell fools the Elgen when they're going door-to-door, so the clan is temporarily safe. Michael uses a pulse to disable them, but the Elgen track them to the neighborhood. The voice calls again and recommends that the tracking devices in the GPs ('guinea pigs,' i.e. They escape the truck, with some help from an unknown entity, and get to the large and fancy house of Mitchell, a friend of Jack and Wade. The safehouse is then invaded, and everyone is taken prisoner.

Ostin analyzes this info and discovers that the Elgen have created an efficient power source to fuel power plants (Starxource), and are quickly taking over the world's economy this efficient power source consists of harvesting energy from electrified rats. The Electroclan does as the voice asks, grabbing their new rides (Hummers) from the drop site and heading to a safe house, where Grace uploads her information to a computer. At the salon, a mysterious woman gives Michael keys and tells him to go into a tanning room, where he is called and given instructions from a voice (seemingly representing a secret organization), who tells him that they're in danger and that they should ditch their vehicles. Taylor wants to see her house as well, so they swing by on the way to Jack's sister's tanning salon to hide out. They head to Jack's house next, which they discover has burned down. They find out that guards have taken over Ostin's apartment, and they escape with Ostin just in time. When they get to Ostin's apartment, Ian sees a guard in a nearby building, whom they knock out and question. Hatch guarantees their return.Ĭontinuing from the end of the first novel, our heroes drive back from Pasadena to Idaho.

The novel opens with a prologue, in which a voice on a phone is heard ordering Hatch to find the missing children as soon as possible. Written by Marquita Snyder and other people who wish to remain anonymous We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own.

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Rise of the Elgen by Richard Paul Evans