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“I don’t know how you just pulled that off back there, but my guess is it’s because you’ve lost your damn mind. Keisha reached up and turned on the little interior truck light, a beacon against the darkness. The storm inside Newt continued to recede he could hear her, actually hear her words clearly. “Thattaboy,” Keisha said, patting him on the shoulder. Newt had no memory of sunset, of fading light. As if the sun had been hurled to the other side of the planet. The night settled around them like an ocean of black air, as if they’d sunk to the bottom of an alien sea. But somehow he had known enough from his prior life, watching his parents drive, memories leaking like water from old pipes, to get them away from the horde of Cranks. Since the Swipe inflicted by WICKED, he had, of course, never driven. Amidst the pulse of his entire body, thumping like a giant heart, he put the car into park. The car slammed to a stop, vaulting his body into the steering wheel. Newt lifted his foot and pressed down on the brake. Keisha was screaming in his ear, even though it sounded like a whisper.

He looked in the rear view mirror on some instinct, but he couldn’t see anything.

He forced himself to ease up on the accelerator, felt the force of the engines lessen as the tunnel of vision zooming past his senses slowed, slowed. He will try to fulfill a newfound destiny before his path leads to its inevitable conclusion-and one last meeting with his best friend.Newt understood on some level how lucky they were that he was on a relatively straight road, because he was barely holding onto his wits. Taking place during the latter events of The Death Cure, Crank Palace tells the story of Newt like never before, from inside his own mind, as he searches for meaning in a life gone horribly wrong. Although Newt thought he was running away from his friends to save them from himself, along the way he meets a young mother named Keisha and her son, Dante, who end up saving Newt in a way he could never have imagined. From there, he experiences the gritty nightmare of life on the streets, running from the infected and those hunting them, until he ends up in the Crank Palace, the last dumping ground of those without hope. Leaving only a note, Newt departs the Berg before the Gladers return from their mission into Denver, Colorado.

And Newt can't bear the thought of his friends watching him descend into madness as he succumbs to the virus. But now he has a burden that can't be shared with Thomas and the others-the Flare. Newt has been to hell and back with his friends.