Gally has joined the rebel group the Right Arm and explains that WICKED is capturing every Immune that it can find to prepare another cycle of the Trials. There, a man in a black suit directs them to an address, where Gally is waiting for them. Newt gives Thomas a note and tells him to open it 'when the time is right.' The five then travel to Denver to find Hans, a former WICKED researcher who can remove their mind-control chips. Soon afterward, the Gladers discover that everyone who had undergone the memory restoration abandoned them. Thomas initially feels betrayed, but Brenda reveals she only joined so she wouldn't be executed and reasons Teresa may have only betrayed him because of that too. All three of them escape from WICKED with the help of Brenda and Jorge before their chips are removed.īrenda and Jorge are revealed to be working for WICKED. Only Thomas, Minho, and Newt choose not to undergo the surgery, as they do not trust WICKED, and Thomas does not want to know who he was when he helped to create the maze. The Gladers are offered the chance to remove the mind-control chips in their heads and restore their memories but at the cost of Thomas's ability to communicate telepathically with Teresa and Aris. Janson tells the Gladers (Group A) and Group B that most of their number are immune to the Flare, but some, whose names he reads, are not immune, including Newt. It was published on 11 October 2011 by Delacorte Press and was preceded in publication order by The Maze Runner and The Scorch Trials and followed by the series prequels, The Kill Order and The Fever Code.Īfter being held in solitary confinement, Thomas is eventually released by Janson (nicknamed the 'Rat Man'), who is the assistant director of WICKED (World In Catastrophe Killzone Experiment Department).

The Death Cure is a 2011 young adult dystopian science fiction novel written by American writer James Dashner and the third published in the Maze Runner series (the fifth and last in narrative order). Print ( hardcover and paperback), audiobook, e-book

The kill order by james dashner