Deze serie dompelt lezers onder in een wereld op de rand van de afgrond, waar onwaarschijnlijke helden mondiale crises moeten trotseren. Het verkent de ontdekking van verborgen krachten en innerlijk potentieel terwijl personages ernaar streven de mensheid te redden van de dreigende ondergang. De verhalen duiken in thema's als moed, zelfontdekking en wat het werkelijk betekent om een held te zijn onder de meest uitdagende omstandigheden. Verwacht een aangrijpende reis die de grenzen van de menselijke geest op de proef stelt.
What if playing computer games could save the world...and the Government's secret weapon was you?Tom Raines is suddenly recruited into the US Army to train as a virtual reality Combatant to see if he is good enough to help fight World War Three.
Tom Raines and his friends return to the Pentagonal Spire for a new year, eager to continue their training for the elite Intrasolar Forces. But they soon discover troubling changes. Strict new regulations, suspicious agents in positions of power and the revelations that the Spire is under military control. The trainees are now cadets. What begins as an irritating adjustment soon reveals a dangerous shift in reality. Those in control have a ruthless agenda. And when the military academy begins welcoming suspicious new cadets, they reveal a plan with horrifying worldwide ramifications. Tom is desperate to stop it, and it seems he is not alone. But when the enemy comes for Tom, how much can he endure in the battle to save himself? In this exhilarating, explosive and heart-rendering conclusion to the INSIGNIA trilogy, CATALYST puts Tom and his intelligent, passionate and brave young friends through stunning tests, dangerous confrontations and into an impossible future they could never have predicted.