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Alicia, Danny and Jamie hurry to Auburn to stop the assassination. Jamie sees Scott with Mortlake in the crowd, and he tries to send a telepathic message to him, but it fails. Desperate, Jamie commands Warren Cornfeld, Trelawny's bodyguard and would-be assassin (being controlled by Scott), to aim the gun at Susan Mortlake, and she is shot, and in chaos Jamie takes Scott and escapes with Alicia and Danny. Policemen immediately come after them and Jamie and Scott are forced to use a hidden doorway in Lake Tahoe, and emerge in [[Cuzco]], [[Peru]]. From here they find their way to the [[Sechura Desert|Nazca desert]] and meet with Matt and Pedro, the first and second Gatekeepers. |
Alicia, Danny and Jamie hurry to Auburn to stop the assassination. Jamie sees Scott with Mortlake in the crowd, and he tries to send a telepathic message to him, but it fails. Desperate, Jamie commands Warren Cornfeld, Trelawny's bodyguard and would-be assassin (being controlled by Scott), to aim the gun at Susan Mortlake, and she is shot, and in chaos Jamie takes Scott and escapes with Alicia and Danny. Policemen immediately come after them and Jamie and Scott are forced to use a hidden doorway in Lake Tahoe, and emerge in [[Cuzco]], [[Peru]]. From here they find their way to the [[Sechura Desert|Nazca desert]] and meet with Matt and Pedro, the first and second Gatekeepers. |
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Meanwhile, Scarlett Adams takes an airplane to Hong Kong to meet her father, who works for Nightrise. |
Meanwhile, Scarlett Adams takes an airplane to Hong Kong to meet her father, who works for Nightrise.As Scarlett is about to go |
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she finds out that John Trelawny has lost the election and that it is suspected that Nightrise has rigged the ballots |
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== Places mentioned == |
== Places mentioned == |
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* [[Reno, Nevada]] |
* [[Reno, Nevada]] |
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| Author | Anthony Horowitz |
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| Language | English |
| Series | The Power of Five |
| Subject | Evil |
| Genre | Fantasy novel |
| Publisher | Walter Books Ltd |
Publication date | April 2, 2007 (UK) |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 400 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 1-84428-621-5 (Paperback edition) Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character |
| 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 April 2, 2007 by Walker Books Ltd. It is preceded by Evil Star, released in 2006, and followed by Necropolis that was released on October 30, 2008. [1] The title refers to a fictional organisation represented in the book.
Plot summary
 | This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. (November 2008) |
This story begins with two men, Colton Banes and Kyle Hovey, who work for Nightrise, waiting outside a tacky theatre in Reno, Nevada. They are waiting to kidnap Jamie and Scott Tyler, who are part of a magic show in the theatre. Their foster parent, Don White, sells off the twins to them, but Jamie and Scott escape and are chased by them. Scott is captured but Jamie is rescued by a woman. He awakens at the woman's house, who introduces herself as Alicia and tells 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 their murders, and 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. After these incidents, he and Scott refused to read or control anyone's minds but each others. 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.
Alicia decides to seek help from her boss, John Trelawny, who is running for 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 crime and is put into the juvenile centre to find his brother and Alicia's son. One night, when he demands Max Koring, a supervisor, 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.
Jamie is almost baked to death in solitary confinement when Joe Feather, the intake officer, comes in, who is actually on his side (as he is an Indian too). Feather examined him earlier and knew about his mysterious tattoo. He explains to Jamie that Jamie and Scott are two of the Five, but Scott has already left Silent Creek. They work out a convincing plan to save Daniel and break out, whilst at the same time Colton and Koring are on their way to Silent Creek. A fight goes on between the tribe that Feather belongs to and Banes' men, resulting in Jamie being shot in the shoulder and Banes killed.
Feather manages to break out with Daniel and Jamie, but Jamie dies, and a shaman is called on to bring him back. During this however, Jamie is transported back to the height of the war between humanity and the Old Ones ten thousand years ago. It becomes clear that the original Gatekeepers are the exact same as the Gatekeepers in the present, just with different names. Matt is obviously the leader, and most knowledgeable of the Gatekeepers. He tells Jamie that he sent Sapling to his death on purpose, as the King of the Old Ones would then think he had won, however, should that occur, another from the future/past would take his place, hence why Jamie was there. Jamie then participates in the battle against the Old Ones, in which the Old Ones were defeated, having mistakenly thought that only four of the Five could come together. At the place where the Five congregate, a gate is formed to where the Old Ones were banished to, and would be called Raven's Gate by future generations. Jamie sees an eagle which Matt explains is there to take him back.
Jamie wakes up in the present and with Feather and Daniel travels back to Reno to reunite Daniel with Alicia. When he is asleep that night, he is spoken to again by the gray man, telling him 'he's going to kill him.' He finally realised what it means, originally mistaking that Scott was the one going to be killed, but he realises that Scott is the person going to kill John Trelawny, the probable future president for America who had helped Jamie and Alicia. Throughout the book, Nightrise has always wanted the other candidate to become president, who will support the return of the Old Ones. However, when Trelawny became too popular, assassination seemed the only option. It becomes apparent that this will take place during his birthday parade in his home town of Auburn.
Alicia, Danny and Jamie hurry to Auburn to stop the assassination. Jamie sees Scott with Mortlake in the crowd, and he tries to send a telepathic message to him, but it fails. Desperate, Jamie commands Warren Cornfeld, Trelawny's bodyguard and would-be assassin (being controlled by Scott), to aim the gun at Susan Mortlake, and she is shot, and in chaos Jamie takes Scott and escapes with Alicia and Danny. Policemen immediately come after them and Jamie and Scott are forced to use a hidden doorway in Lake Tahoe, and emerge in Cuzco, Peru. From here they find their way to the Nazca desert and meet with Matt and Pedro, the first and second Gatekeepers.
Meanwhile, Scarlett Adams takes an airplane to Hong Kong to meet her father, who works for Nightrise.As Scarlett is about to go she finds out that John Trelawny has lost the election and that it is suspected that Nightrise has rigged the ballots
Places mentioned
Pentagram
The Power of Five series is based on ideas from a series written by Anthony Horowitz in 1983-1989, Pentagram. Pentagram was meant to have five books, but only four were ever published. The third was The Silver Citadel. This novel has been largely changed, expanded and modernised to form Nightrise, notably through the omission of the Queen of the Old Ones, a significantly more detailed section set in the past, and the introduction of Scar (Power of Five's equivalent of the Pentagram series' character Will) a book earlier than originally.