This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Text copyright © 2010 by James Dashner
Cover art copyright © 2010 by Philip Straub
Cover typography by Joel Tippie

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Originally published in hardcover by Delacorte Press, New York, in 2010.

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition of this work as follows:
Dashner, James.
The Scorch Trials / James Dashner. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
Sequel to: The maze runner.
Summary: After surviving horrific conditions in the Maze, Thomas is entrapped, along with nineteen other boys, in a scientific experiment designed to observe their responses and gather data believed to be essential for the survival of the human race.
ISBN 978-0-385-73875-0 (hc) — ISBN 978-0-385-90745-3 (glb) — ISBN 978-0-375-89611-8 (ebook)
[1. Survival—Fiction. 2. Science fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.D2587Sc 2010
[Fic]—dc22
2010021189

ISBN 978-0-385-73876-7 (tr. pbk.)

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