The Maze Runner · Book 2

The Scorch Trials

by James Dashner

Published
18 September 2010
Pages
384
ISBN-13
9781906427795
Type
novel

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Cover of The Scorch Trials

About this book

The Scorch Trials, the second novel, was published in September 2010 at 384 pages, arriving almost exactly a year after The Maze Runner and a year ahead of The Death Cure.

Its place in The Maze Runner

The Scorch Trials is book 2 in the The Maze Runner series. It follows The Maze Runner. It is followed by The Death Cure. 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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