The follow-up to the critically acclaimed <i>Phoenix Island</i>, which reads like "<i>Lord of the Flies</i> meets Wolverine and <i>Cool Hand Luke</i>" (F. Paul Wilson, creator of Repairman Jack) and inspired the CBS TV show <i>Intelligence</i>.<br><br>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.
