Tally thought they were a rumor, but now she's one of them. A Special. A superamped fighting machine, engineered to keep the uglies down and the pretties stupid.
But maybe being perfectly programmed with strength and focus isn't better than anything she's ever known. Tally still has memories of something else.
But it's easy for her to tune that out - until she's offered a chance to stamp out the rebels of the New Smoke permanently. It all comes down to one last choice: listen to that tiny, faint heartbeat, or carry out the mission she's programmed to complete. Either way, Tally's world will never be the same.
Eine weitere Operation hat Tally innerlich und äußerlich verwandelt: Sie ist jetzt eine `Special, eine Waffe in menschlicher Gestalt grausam-schön und voller Verachtung für alle Uglies und Pretties. Die neue Tally genießt das Special-Dasein, nur manchmal wird sie von leisen Zweifeln geplagt. Umso ernster nimmt sie ihren Auftrag, die Rebellen zu jagen, die heimlich das Heilmittel in der Stadt verteilen. Tally beschließt, das Übel bei der Wurzel zu packen, indem sie das Rebellendorf aufspürt. Dazu ermöglicht sie ihrem Freund Zane unter Vorspiegelung falscher Motive die Flucht aus der Stadt. Zane nimmt Kontakt zu den Rebellen auf, nicht ahnend, dass Tally ihm folgt. Aber unterwegs in der Wildnis wird Tally von Erinnerungen an ihre eigene Zeit als Rebellin geplagt und ist sich ihrer Sache plötzlich nicht mehr so sicher.
Scott Westerfeld is the author of the Leviathan series, the first book of which was the winner of the 2010 Locus Award for Best Young Adult Fiction. His other novels include the
New York Times bestseller
Afterworlds, the worldwide bestselling Uglies series,
The Last Days,
Peeps,
So Yesterday, and the Midnighters trilogy. Visit him at ScottWesterfeld.com or follow him on Twitter at @ScottWesterfeld.
Über den Autor
Scott Westerfeld is the author of the Leviathan series, the first book of which was the winner of the 2010 Locus Award for Best Young Adult Fiction. His other novels include the New York Times bestseller Afterworlds, the worldwide bestselling Uglies series, The Last Days, Peeps, So Yesterday, and the Midnighters trilogy. Visit him at ScottWesterfeld.com or follow him on Twitter at @ScottWesterfeld.
Klappentext
When she is turned into a super-modelesque super-fighting machine, Tally, a former ugly, is ordered to keep the uglies down and the pretties stupid in a carefully engineered world of perfection where she refuses to play by the rules.
