BZRK
* Grant, who showed a flair for grandiose conceptual gambits in his Gone series, heregoes big by going small.  With science as soft as pudding (though, really, who cares—pudding is  delicious), he envisions nanotechnology so advanced that brains can be  rewired, memories manipulated, and senses hacked by robots and  gene-spliced creatures the size of dust mites. A war between two  ultra-secretive, competing ideologies—one championing free will, the  other promising enforced happiness—is being fought “down in the meat,”  andGrant gleefully exposes the biological ickiness of the bodygoing about its everyday business in paranoia-inducing scenes of  nanobots scuttling across spongy brain matter or plunging probes into  optic nerves. At the same time, he doles out eviscerating loads of  violence on the macro level as two teens are enlisted to help stop a  maniacal baddie and his team of “twitchers,” who are planning to  infiltrate the heads of the world’s most powerful nations.With  simmering pots of sexual tension, near-nonstop action, and the threat of  howling madness or brain-melting doom around every corpuscular corner,  Grant’s new series is off to a breathless, bombastic start.-Booklist,Starred Review“YA fiction at it’s best.…  It's a combination science fiction/adventure/thriller all written  brilliantly to entice the reader into a terrifying world.” –Examiner.com “Squeamish as I am, Grant has me hooked with the compelling characters that populate the GoBZRKstoryworld.” –Michael Anderson,WIREDmagazine “Grant  utilizes contemporary themes and memorable characters, along with the  possibilities of emerging technology to craft aningenious world not too  far removed from our own. … The intelligent presentation will likely  appeal to a broad audience.” –PopCultureGuy “If you are anything like me thenBZRKwill blow your mind. …BZRKis very different from pretty much any YA book out there at the moment,  and the closest I can come to expressing how it is continuing to play  on my mind almost two weeks later, is to liken it to William Gibson'sNeuromancerwhich had a similar effect on me many years ago.BZRKis a gamechanger for YA literature.” –The Book Zone “This novel is full of the intricacies of the human body and non-stop action on all fronts. …An intricately written science fiction thriller,BZRKoffers an in-depthlook into a war raging deep within the human body.” –Deseret NewsPraise forGone, by Michael Grant:An ALA Popular Paperback for Young Adults"Thisintense, marvelously plotted,  paced, and  characterized story will immediately garner comparisons to  Lord of the  Flies...A potent mix of action and thoughtfulness-centered  around good  and evil, courage and cowardice-renders this a tour-de-force  thatwill leave readers dazed, disturbed, and utterly breathless." -Booklist"If  Stephen King had written LORD OF THE FLIES, it might have been a  little  like this...Excited to see where [Grant] will take [the reader]  with  this new series." -Voya