Ringer sets out to find an alternate route, though it goes awry when she mistakes Teacup, a small girl of the squad, for a Silencer, shoots her, and is taken by an approaching helicopter. The group takes refuge in an old hotel near the ruins of Wright-Patterson, at Cassie's insistence that Evan is still alive. The book becomes much more involved with the members of Squad 53 and the character Ringer. The Infinite Sea is the second installment in the series, released on September 16, 2014. The film was mildly successful, though news is still pending regarding the production of a sequel. The book was adapted into a film by J Blakeson and Columbia Pictures, under the title The 5th Wave, and was released on January 22, 2016. Cassie, Ben, and Sammy ride off with Squad 53 as Wright-Patterson is destroyed.
Evan saves them and says his goodbyes to Cassie before he detonates bombs that level the base, though he is lost in the process. They find Sammy, but are taunted and thwarted by the acting commander of the base, Colonel Alexander Vosch. They eventually run into each other and join each other. Ben and Ringer decide to bolt with the rest of Squad 53, but Ben insists on going back for Sammy, who was left on base due to his age.īen and Cassie both enter the base. It is revealed that the Others are masquerading as a resistance force, abducting and training the children into a fighting force, which they will deploy as the Fifth Wave to end humanity. While deployed, Ben and his squadmate Ringer start to piece together their true purposes and learn that Wright-Patterson is actually run by the Others. The two, though uneasily, coordinate a plan to extract Sammy then begin executing it. He then helped her because he had fallen in love and couldn't bring himself to kill her. After the two set out, Cassie and Evan are attacked by a squad from Wright-Patterson, and, after seeing how easily Evan dispatches them, Cassie finds out that Evan was the Silencer who originally shot her. Sammy is placed in Squad 53 and befriends squadmate Ben Parish, who is coincidentally Cassie's long-lost crush from high school. It is revealed over the course of the story that the soldiers are recruiting (truly, abducting) children into an army, telling them they are the last hope for fighting back against the Others. Meanwhile, Sammy arrives at Wright-Patterson AFB, which is now a "training camp" called Camp Haven. Cassie is shot by an Other-affiliated sniper, a "Silencer", from the woods on her trek, and is later rescued by Evan Walker, who nurses her back to health and agrees to help her find her brother.
The book opens in the midst of the Fourth Wave and follows Cassie's quest to find her brother, Sammy, after he is taken by U.S.
THE 5TH WAVE RICK YANCEY SERIES
The 5th Wave is the first book in the series and was released on May 7, 2013. So, when I was working through how the attacks might work, I realized first that it couldn’t just be one attack-the world’s too big-you’d have to do it in stages, or waves." The first book was officially published on May 7, 2013. They would learn how we think, they would learn about what do humans do in times of crisis, and they would turn that to their own advantage. "It was basically trying to think like an alien, and considering the fact that if they are out there, they probably wouldn’t attack without getting to know us very, very well. conversations where your mind starts going, and I asked her, on the spur of the moment, 'What is your greatest fear?' She said, without hesitation, 'Alien abduction.'" Yancey continued on, telling how he developed the plot for the series. Yancey stated in an interview with Lightspeed Magazine that the basis for The 5th Wave came from a question he asked his wife about her worst fears. The story follows a group of children as they try to find their way through a world that is slowly reverting to the Stone Age. After the first four waves have decimated the human population, the remaining populace is terrifyingly awaiting the arrival a new Fifth Wave, one that will supposedly wipe the human race clean off the planet. They exist in an unknown form and attack through a series of waves. Earth is systematically attacked by a group of aliens known as "the Others".