From James Dashner, New York Times bestselling author of the Maze Runner series, comes The Rule of Thoughts, the second book in The Mortality Doctrine series and the exciting sequel to The Eye of Minds. Michael completed the Path and the truth Michael discovered about Kaine is more complex than anyone at VirtNet Security could have anticipated, and more terrifying. What he found at the end turned everything he"d ever known about his life - and the world - completely upside down. He barely survived. But it was the only way VirtNet Security knew to find the cyber-terrorist Kaine - and to make the Sleep safe for gamers once again. Kaine is a tangent, a computer program that has become sentient. And Michael"s completing the Path was the first stage in turning Kaine"s master plan, the Mortality Doctrine, into a reality. The Mortality Doctrine will populate Earth entirely with human bodies harboring tangent minds. Any gamer who sinks into the VirtNet risks coming out...