After being captured and surgically transformed into a "special," teenaged Tally Youngblood, now a government agent programmed to protect society from outside threats, is ordered to eliminate the rebel colony New Smoke, Tally's former home.

When suicide becomes a worldwide epidemic, the only known cure is The Program, a treatment in which painful memories are erased, a fate worse than death to Sloane who knows that it will steal memories of her dead brother and boyfriend.

After fourteen-year-old Ozzy's scientist parents have been kidnapped, Ozzy's only help may be a classified ad that says, "Wizards for hire."

Struggling with growing uncertainties about the cult leader who watches and punishes his inside charges, broadcasting their lives to outside followers, a fearful Esther tries to play her part perfectly to avoid the mysterious fate that befalls anyone whom her leader determines is in need of renewal.

In 1946 Eva arrives in New York City, from the rubble of Berlin, supposedly looking for a new life, but actually seeking justice against the Nazis that "escaped" with the help of the CIA; one in particular, the doctor who knows who Eva really is, because her identity is the product of Project Bluebird, an experiment of the concentration camps involving brainwashing and mind control, which both the Americans and the Soviets would like access to--and...