Wildcard (Warcross 2)
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- CHF 7.50
Beschreibung des Verlags
Return to the immersive, action-packed world of Warcross in this thrilling sequel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu
IT'S TIME FOR A REMATCH
All bets are off. This time the gamble is survival.
Emika Chen barely made it out of the Warcross Championships alive. Now she can no longer trust the one person she's always looked up to, the one person she thought was on her side - Hideo Tanaka.
His plan: to wipe out all crime on Earth by ending the free will of its citizens.
Emika is determined to put a stop to him, but she soon finds a new threat lurking on the neon-lit streets of Tokyo. Someone's put a bounty on her head, and her sole chance for survival lies with the ruthless Zero.
But his protection comes at a price.
Caught in a web of betrayal, just how far will Emika go to take down the man she loves?
In this explosive sequel to the New York Times bestselling Warcross, Marie Lu delivers an addictive finale that will hold you captive till the very last page.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Sure to inspire even deeper devotion among Lu's fans, this sequel picks up just three days after the Warcross finale, raising complicated questions about the consequences of technology and power. Emika Chen, exempt from Hideo Tanaka's unleashed algorithm thanks to a lucky accident, is reeling from Hideo's betrayal and the knowledge that Zero, the hacker whom Hideo hired her to neutralize, is Hideo's long-missing brother, Sasuke, whose disappearance drives Hideo to create Warcross and the algorithm. Having realized that the algorithm, meant to eliminate violence, may be causing people to commit suicide, Emika enters a tenuous partnership with Zero and the Blackcoats, a secret organization working to destroy the algorithm, and attempts to gain access to it by winning Hideo's trust. Though Emika maintains her moral center, she struggles to do right as the virtual world crosses into reality and becomes personal: "There's a point where the lines start to blur, and I am standing in that place now, struggling to see through the gray." Lu's futuristic world, with its immersive technology, feels dangerously within reach in this action-packed escapade with a thoughtful, emotion-driven core. Ages 12 up.
