The Maze Runner · Book 4

The Kill Order

Published
14 August 2012
Pages
384
ISBN-13
9781908435590
Type
novel
Cover of The Kill Order

About this book

The Kill Order, published in August 2012 at 384 pages, is numbered as the series' fourth entry despite its story reaching back before the trilogy that preceded it in publication order.

Key facts about The Kill Order

James Dashner wrote The Kill Order, a novel on our list. It has been out since 14 August 2012. The book has 384 pages.

We list 3 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781908435590 to find the main one.

The Kill Order is book 4 of 10 in The Maze Runner series. The series has 10 published books. However, the series starts with The Maze Runner (2009). The Maze Cutter is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 1 November 2022.

Additionally, James Dashner writes The Jimmy Fincher Saga, The 13th Reality and The Mortality Doctrine as separate series. Those series sit on our fantasy, dystopian and science fiction shelves. Meanwhile, The Infinite Glade is the latest published James Dashner book on file, from 2025.

About James Dashner

James Dashner is an American author best known for The Maze Runner series, a young-adult dystopian saga following a group of teenagers trapped in a vast, shifting maze with no memory of their past lives, who gradually uncover the larger conspiracy behind their imprisonment. See every James Dashner book in order.

Its place in The Maze Runner

The Kill Order is book 4 in the The Maze Runner series. It follows The Death Cure. It is followed by The Maze Runner Files. See the full The Maze Runner reading order.

Thomas wakes up in a rising metal box with no memory except his own name, surrounded by dozens of other boys who've been living inside the Glade — a walled-off refuge at the center of a vast, shifting, monster-patrolled Maze. Every boy arrived the same way, one per month, with no way out except solving a labyrinth that rearranges itself nightly and kills anyone it catches. Thomas's arrival breaks the group's fragile routine: the next day a girl shows up, the first ever, carrying a note that says everything is…

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