![]() The cache is an ornate, expensive-looking box that can only be opened by solving a puzzle. Immediate clues suggest that this is not an ordinary game. All that would be true if this was an ordinary game. There’s no intrinsic value to an individual cache, and the finder simply re-buries it for the next player. He explains to his friends that gamers hide these caches for each other, just for the challenge and fun of finding them. Hiram is digging to find the cache that he’s located using GPS. Their newest adventure starts as an innocent game of geocache. ![]() By simply concentrating, these kids can summon extraordinary strength and heightened sensory awareness. ![]() In two earlier books in the Virals series, Tory (the only girl), Hiram, Shelton, and Ben (the oldest at 16) and Coop (the wolf dog) had previously been zapped by a designer pathogen that imbued them with special super human (and super canine) powers. Toss in a hurricane and an evil mastermind who glories in destruction, and it’s understandable how the thrills and chills are packed in back-to-back. Most of all, this book tells of the harrowing, life-or-death struggle of three teenagers who must find a bomb before its scheduled explosion. Code is a suspenseful page-turner, a mystery, an insight into relationships, a series of intellectually challenging puzzles based on science, and random thumbnail explanations of things like how to balance a chemical equation. ![]()
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