Enclave Author:Kit Reed The world is in chaos:� war, plague, global ecological collapse.� Seeking sanctuary for their children, parents enrol them in the elite Clothos Academy.� Run by a mysterious man known only as Sarge, set in a former monastery atop a sheer cliff on a tiny island, Clothos will admit only 100 children before it is sealed off—perhaps permanently... more »—from the terrors outside.
These precious, protected children are hardly the best and the brightest: empty-headed, anorexia-thin “starlets;? troublemakers barely one step ahead of the law; cast-off junior royals too embarrassing to be let out in public.� The staff isn?t much better, from the alcoholic doctor and lovelorn guidance counselor to a teacher with a lust for power and an ancient monk with secrets of his own.��
And the dangers from which these castaways are being protected?� Stored on hundreds of DVDs, ready to be trotted out whenever Sarge needs to terrify his little flock.
And yet . . .
Two boys discover there are real dangers beyond Clothos? thick stone walls when they hack the Academy?s self-contained computer network and connect, for a brief but disastrous moment, to the outside world.� Worse, a stranger has penetrated the Academy?s defenses.� And he has brought Death.« less