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The Terminals: A Novel
In The Terminals, Royce Buckingham tells the riveting story of a covert team of young, terminally ill teens who spend their last year alive running dangerous missions as super-spies for an organization that may not be all it seems.
When 19 year-old Cam Cody is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he expects to spend the rest of his shortened life in an adjustable bed. Then one night, a mysterious man offers Cam one chance to join a covert unit of young “terminals.” They are like him, only they spend the last year of their lives executing exciting and dangerous missions to make the world a better place.
With nothing to lose, Cam is in.
A helicopter flies Cam to a secret tropical location, where he’s tossed out with a parachute and an instruction manual. After a rough landing, he meets his nine teammates. The other terminals don’t seem sick; Zara is beautiful, Donnie is an amazing athlete, and Calliope sings like a bird. He soon learns that they’re enhanced with an experimental super steroid TS-8, which suppresses their illnesses’ symptoms and heightens their physical and mental abilities. It’s also fatal if taken for more than a year.
Cam joins this extreme spy team, and they begin pulling dangerous operations in multiple countries. As his teammates fall around him, he starts to receive cryptic messages from a haggard survivor of last year’s class hiding in the forest. She reveals that the program isn’t what it seems, leading Cam to question whether any of them are really sick at all.
When 19 year-old Cam Cody is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he expects to spend the rest of his shortened life in an adjustable bed. Then one night, a mysterious man offers Cam one chance to join a covert unit of young “terminals.” They are like him, only they spend the last year of their lives executing exciting and dangerous missions to make the world a better place.
With nothing to lose, Cam is in.
A helicopter flies Cam to a secret tropical location, where he’s tossed out with a parachute and an instruction manual. After a rough landing, he meets his nine teammates. The other terminals don’t seem sick; Zara is beautiful, Donnie is an amazing athlete, and Calliope sings like a bird. He soon learns that they’re enhanced with an experimental super steroid TS-8, which suppresses their illnesses’ symptoms and heightens their physical and mental abilities. It’s also fatal if taken for more than a year.
Cam joins this extreme spy team, and they begin pulling dangerous operations in multiple countries. As his teammates fall around him, he starts to receive cryptic messages from a haggard survivor of last year’s class hiding in the forest. She reveals that the program isn’t what it seems, leading Cam to question whether any of them are really sick at all.
- GenresYoung Adult
288 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 14, 2014
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November 19, 2015
Panebože! Tak tohle bylo naprosto GENIÁLNÍ!!!!! Miluju tyhle random výběry neznámých knih, které dopadnou skvěle. Recenze již brzy! Aaaaaaa. Miluju to. Chci další!
February 2, 2019
Není to zrovna má parketa, doporučil mi ji můj muž a já musím nakonec konstatovat, že nebyla nejhorší. Byla zajímavá. Dobře se četla. Nápad a zápletka byla fajn. Hodně se v ní bojovalo i umíralo a to nejdůležitější se odkrývalo jen tak zlehka a pozvolna. Vyústění dle mého očekávatelné a předvídatelné, ale nevadilo mi to.
February 6, 2017
Tak tohle bylo hodně dobré, mile mě to překvapilo. Napínavé, drsné, dalo by se říct i lehce konspirační, někdy sice moc urychlené a některé postavy by potřebovaly trochu víc vykreslit, ale stálo to za přečtení.
January 31, 2017
Mohlo byt. Sice mi hlavny hrdina pred koncom liezol riadne na nervy. Jeho kamosov zabijali a on bol taky sucitny, ze nechaval nepriatelov zit, co sa im samozrejme vypomstilo.
Tiez som hned prisla na to, ako to s ich chorobou vlastne bolo, ale kniha stoji za jedno precitanie.
Tiez som hned prisla na to, ako to s ich chorobou vlastne bolo, ale kniha stoji za jedno precitanie.
June 7, 2015
Blech. Crass. Read about a third of it and it kept getting worse.
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