Fifteen-year-old Michael Vey, born with Tourette's syndrome and special electromagnetic powers, joins his techno-genius best friend and an alliance of other "electric" teenagers to battle powerful foes in the jungles of Peru, where Michael learns the Order of Elgen's plan to "restructure" the world.
Offers lessons for living a fulfilling and joyful life through a simple approach based on four principles, believing in one's destiny, escaping internal captivity, leading a magnified life, and choosing a love-centered life.
While on their most dangerous mission so far, Michael, Taylor, Ostin, and the rest of the Electroclan discover the resistance has been compromised and their families are missing.
"Michael and the rest of the Electroclan are facing their greatest crisis yet. The resistance movement has been compromised, and they have no idea if their families are alive... or dead. What they do know is that the Elgen wont's stop until they've destroyed the Electroclan."--Back cover.
In order to wipe out the Elgen, Michael and the Electroclan plot to capture the Joule, a boat serving as a treasury, with the help of an Elite Global Guard member named Welch and three Elgen youth condemned to death.
Michael, Taylor, Ostin, and the rest of the Electroclan head to Taiwan in search of nine-year-old child prodigy Lin Julung, or Jade Dragon, who the Elgen kidnapped for Hatch's army of electric children.
Michael Vey, a fourteen-year old who has Tourette's syndrome and special electric powers, finds there are others like him, and must rely on his powers to save himself and the others from a diabolical group seeking to control them.
Robert Harlan writes a blockbuster novel based on his beloved wife's last few months with her father before he died of cancer, and is swept up in the trappings of success, causing him to lose sight of those things that are really important--until he meets a mysterious stranger who opens his eyes to the truth.
Eliana, unhappy in her marriage to the philandering Maurizio, falls in love with Ross Story, an American who has come to Italy to work at a local art museum; but their romance is doomed because of laws that would give her husband custody of their young son.