The Book
The Scorch Trials is book 2 in the Maze Runner series and continues where the previous book left off. Thomas and the remaining bunch of Gladers are told they have been infected with the Flare (the virus that gradually turns humans into mad Cranks) and the only way to be given the cure is to make their way to the Safe Haven across the Scorch (the desert left across the equator following solar flares).
Sound convoluted? Well it gets worse.. and that's the problem.
The reader has to suspend belief and accept that all the hardships, changes in character and deaths are down to the organisation WCKD needing to subject the young people to a wide range of emotional experiences in order to record brain activity and thereby use this to save the human race.
