Tato napínavá série sleduje osudy mladých outsiderů, kteří jsou nuceni proměnit se v elitní zabijáky. V prostředí tajného výcvikového tábora, kde jsou využívány vědecké pokroky k posílení lidských schopností, bojují o přežití a svobodu. Protagonisté musí čelit nejen nebezpečným nepřátelům, ale i vlastní temné minulosti a morálním dilematům. Jedná se o dynamické dobrodružství plné akce, zrady a nečekaných zvratů.
When a tough sixteen-year-old boxing champ sentenced to an isolated boot camp discovers it's actually a mercenary training facility turning "throwaway children" into scientifically enhanced killers, he risks everything to save his friends and stop a madman bent on global destruction.
The follow-up to the critically acclaimed Phoenix Island, which reads like "Lord of the Flies meets Wolverine and Cool Hand Luke" (F. Paul Wilson, creator of Repairman Jack) and inspired the CBS TV show Intelligence.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.