Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
2007 novel by James Patterson
Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports is the third book in the Maximum Ride series by James Patterson. It was released in the United Kingdom and the United States on May 29, 2007. The series is set in modern times, and revolves around the 'flock', a group of human-avian hybrids on the run from the scientists who created them.
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In the third book of the Maximum Ride series, Max and her Flock are faced with the task of saving the world from a massive company called Itex, and its leader known as the Director. Itex - the company behind the School which experimented on the Flock - plans on cutting the world's population in half. They have already terminated a majority of their recombinant life forms. The wolf-human Erasers who once hunted the Flock have been replaced by robots called Flyboys.
Max wants to fight Itex, but Fang tries to convince her to stop and go live life somewhere isolated where they won't have to fight. She lets him take her to go look for a place to stay. They spend the night in a cave and Fang gently kisses Max.
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