Frannie O'Neill's life turned upside down when she and FBI maverick Kit Brennan rescued six incredible children from the school that created them. We are—well, ask Bigfoot, as Brooks does in this delightful yarn, following on his bestseller World War Z (2006). Once The School was destroyed and the children were safe, they were all reunited with their biological parents, from whom they were stolen many years ago. Right after I finished this book I checked my Unread collection to make sure that I do not have any other gems from him and thanked god that I don't have. Megabestselling James Patterson delivers an unputdownable thriller that will chill your spine even as your imagination soars above the clouds.

But there’s no doubt that sooner or later the evil Kane will have his quarry caged, now in the company of the beloved protectors on whom they’ve imprinted for life, and will be crowing over them as he contemplates his plans for what amounts to world domination.James Patterson revisits some very important moral and social issues that should be addressed before scientists go much farther in genetic engineering. And when there are riflemen shooting at the kids, and they shoot down a plane (with a regular rifle, not an anti aircraft gun) and then when the kids fly down to confront the villain, suddenly the riflemen just disappear?

Ethan Kane is chief of surgery at Liberty Hospital, one of the most esteemed hospitals in the nation. I feel like here he just came up with a plot, went to a third grade classroom, told them the plot and let them each come up with a sentence until the story was finished.

The D N A of the six children was combined with that of birds, resulting in completely viable half human half avian life forms.

How the bad guys were so totally overcome near the end is conveniently glossed over, leaving us to feel a little hoodwinked as we came down the final stretch. Indeed, the novel does double duty as a survival manual, packed full of good advice—for instance, try not to get wounded, for “injury turns you from a giver to a taker. Ethan Kane of the mysterious “Hospital” works on the Resurrection Project, murdering people to harvest their organs for rich and famous patients. This is a weird tale of a bird-human hybrid of six children from a dangerous DNA experiment in a hospital and their mad DNA experimentation. And the only people they've ever trusted are Frannie and Kit, the couple who rescued them from unimaginable evil once before.He wants the children who he envisions as the next step up in the evolutionary ladder and he'll use any means at his disposal to get them.