Nightrise
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| Author | Anthony Horowitz |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | The Power of Five |
| Genre | Fantasy novel, adventure novel, thriller novel |
| Publisher | Walker Books |
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Publication date
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2 April 2007 (UK) |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 365 pp |
| ISBN | (Paperback edition) |
| OCLC | 77013026 |
| Preceded by | Evil Star |
| Followed by | Necropolis |
Nightrise is the third book in The Power of Five series, written by Anthony Horowitz. It was published and released in the UK on 2 April 2007 by Walker Books Ltd. It is preceded by Evil Star, released in 2006, and followed by Necropolis, which was released on 30 October 2008. The title refers to a fictional organisation represented in the book. And also it refers to the Old Ones' presence on Earth, and their spreading darkness.
The story begins with two boys, each 14, performing in a theatre in Reno, Nevada. Nightrise is to kidnap identical twin brothers Jamie and Scott Tyler, who are part of a magic show in the theatre. Their foster parent, Don White, sells the twins off to them for $150,000, but Jamie escapes and is pursued. Scott is captured but Jamie is rescued by a woman. He awakens at a hotel in which Alicia is renting a room. A woman who introduces herself as Alicia says that her son, Daniel, was kidnapped by the same corporation after exhibiting clairvoyant powers. She takes Jamie to his foster parents' house only to realise they were murdered; they escape only when Jamie uses his telepathic powers.
Alicia and Jamie go to Los Angeles where he reveals his backstory. He then tells her of his previous foster parents and the weird and inexplicable "accidents" associated with them. He tells her about the strange mark he has and that he thinks he is an Indian. After these incidents, he and Scott refused to read or control anyone's minds but each other's. They find a lead to one of the men that kidnapped Scott, Colton Banes, and Alicia persuades Jamie to read his mind to find out where Scott is. Jamie manages to find out where Scott is being held: Silent Creek, a juvenile Centre, where he is being tortured in an attempt to force him to side with Nightrise.
Alicia decides to seek help from her boss, John Trelawny, who is running for the presidency, and manages to convince him about Jamie's powers and to help him get into Silent Creek. Trelawny affirms Jamie's powers and agrees to help him. Jamie is given a false identity and criminal history, and is put into the juvenile Centre. He finds that his brother is in solitary confinement there and that Alicia's son Daniel is there too. One night, when he tries to use his power to demand that a power-hungry and abusive supervisor named Max Koring take him to his brother, he realises that his powers do not work in the prison, because of some magnetic field that neutralises special powers. Koring puts him in solitary confinement for his rudeness and secretly calls Banes to tell him he has found a Gatekeeper.
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