Uncaged The Singular Menace, 1, John Sandford
Uncaged The Singular Menace, 1, John Sandford
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Uncaged (The Singular Menace, 1)

Author: John Sandford, Michele Cook

Narrator: Tara Sands

Unabridged: 11 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/08/2014


Synopsis

A New York Times bestseller!

John Sandford and Michele Cook debut a high-octane thriller series about a ruthless corporation, unspeakable experiments, and a fight to expose the truth. Perfect for fans of James Dashner's The Maze Runner.
 
Shay Remby arrives in Hollywood with $58 and a handmade knife, searching for her brother, Odin.
 
Odin’s a brilliant hacker but a bit of a loose cannon. He and a group of radical animal-rights activists hit a Singular Corp. research lab in Eugene, Oregon. The raid was a disaster, but Odin escaped with a set of highly encrypted flash drives and a post-surgical dog.
 
When Shay gets a frantic 3 a.m. phone call from Odin—talking about evidence of unspeakable experiments, and a ruthless corporation, and how he must hide—she’s concerned. When she gets a menacing visit from Singular’s security team, she knows: her brother’s a dead man walking.
 
What Singular doesn’t know—yet—is that 16-year-old Shay is every bit as ruthless as their security force, and she will burn Singular to the ground, if that’s what it takes to save her brother.

About John Sandford

American author, John Sanford (a pseudonym of John Roswell Camp) wrote thirty-five novels, all of which are on the New York Times bestsellers list in one way or another. He was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1944, where he spent much of his time with his Lithuanian grandparents. Their home was very primitive with an outside outhouse and a subsistence garden. Life was work centered on the farm with hay being bailed each summer to feed the various farm animals. Fruit trees were also in abundance on their property. It was a good place to grow up.

Camp won the Pulitzer Prize in journalism, and also won the Distinguished Writing Award of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. He also wrote two non-fiction books. The Eye and the Heart: The Water Colors of John Stuart Ingle, and Plastic Surgery: The Kindest Cut.

Camp was married to Susan Lee Jones, and has two children. Susan died in May 2007 of metastasized breast cancer, and he married again in 2013 to Michele Cook, a journalist and screenwriter. Camp is a dedicated painter and photographer also. He, however, does not show his paintings.

Camp's most prolific work is the Prey series of which there are currently twenty-five installments, running from 1989 - 2015.......the first being Rules of Prey and the most recent, Gathering Prey, which debuted on April 28, 2015. Other series include The Kidd Series, The Virgil Flowers Series, The Singular Menace Series, and other various books and short stories.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mike (the Paladin) on May 25, 2020

Well this has been laying around on my "reading" shelf for a while as I haven't gotten around to reviewing it. That's because I never really got interested in it. Yes we start out with a raid on a lab to raise awareness of animal experimentation...that goes very wrong. From there we do get chases, co......more

Goodreads review by Albert on July 16, 2014

I always get a little nervous when my favorite authors step outside the series' for which, I already love them. I get it. I mean how many times can you write about the same characters without wanting to try something new, right? Still, when I heard that John Sandford was teaming up with Michelle Coo......more

Goodreads review by Eric on December 19, 2017

What a pleasant surprise this book turned out to be! I'm a major John Sandford fan but wasn't sure how a young adult version of his books would turn out. Though not as gritty as his Virgil Flowers or Lucas Davenport stories, there is still plenty of grit to go around. I listened to the audio book an......more

Goodreads review by Evie on July 15, 2014

Uncaged is a real thrill ride of a book. Once you start reading you'll find yourself immediately and completely immersed in the plot and unable to put the book down. It's not a short story, it's more than 400 pages long, but thanks to Sandford and Cook's captivating writing style, you'll be flipping......more

Goodreads review by Jim on October 08, 2018

Overall, it was a pretty good story, but it dragged at times & ended with a second book firmly in mind. Not really a cliff-hanger, but there is plenty more to come. If I'm not mistaken, it's a trilogy, but I'm not sure I really want to read further & I'm not sure why. It's definitely a YA setting, bu......more


Quotes

Booklist starred review, May 1, 2014
“… a fabulous mix of outlandish hijinks, techno-noir, and teen cheek—L.A. style. Not to be missed.”