Deze spannende serie volgt de reizen van jonge buitenbeentjes die gedwongen worden elite-moordenaars te worden. Binnen een clandestiene trainingsfaciliteit worden wetenschappelijke vooruitgangen gebruikt om menselijke vaardigheden te verbeteren, waardoor deze individuen vechten voor overleving en vrijheid. De protagonisten worden niet alleen geconfronteerd met gevaarlijke tegenstanders, maar ook met hun eigen duistere verleden en morele dilemma's. Het is een actievol avontuur vol spanning, verraad en onverwachte wendingen.
When a tough sixteen-year-old boxing champ sentenced to an isolated boot camp discovers it's actually a mercenary training facility turning "throwaway children" into scientifically enhanced killers, he risks everything to save his friends and stop a madman bent on global destruction.
The follow-up to the critically acclaimed Phoenix Island, which reads like "Lord of the Flies meets Wolverine and Cool Hand Luke" (F. Paul Wilson, creator of Repairman Jack) and inspired the CBS TV show Intelligence.With a chip in his head and hundreds more throughout his body, sixteen-year-old Carl Freeman was turned from an orphan with impulse control issues into a super-soldier. Forced into the mercenary Phoenix Force group, he begins to fear he'll never escape. Sent to a volcanic island to fight for them, he'll compete in a combat tournament that awards teens with survival for merciless brutality. But just when all looks lost, he spies a friendly face...and possibly a way out.