"The burtal Freshman Finals at Kings Dominion School of the Deadly Arts have created a new status quo. The Student Council has eliminated all its enemies and rules the hall with an iron fist. Into this shark tank comes a new class of kids, fresh blood for a fresh start. There is Quan, a Vietnamese rockabilly, quick with his knives and a comb. Helmut, an East German metalhead with a hatred for communists. Zenzele, a hammer-swinging refugee of a brutal...

"A forgotten and misunderstood generation wedged between two monoliths struggles to find their place in a world that is wholly disinterested in them. Year-by-year, as their cynicism is proven the only rational perspective, as the elastic cushion of youth fades, our friends must face a worldwide pandemic made up of the evils that once seemed relegated only to the halls of Kings Dominion."--Amazon.com.

It's 1988 and Marcus Lopez's first year at Kings Dominion, the elite academy where damaged teenagers are forged into the world's deadliest assassins, is coming to a close, and the final exam is murder ... literally. What few friends, what little love Marcus managed to scrape together become his greatest weakness, as the school descends into chaos. Pass or Fail, no one survives the Freshman Finals without getting blood on their hands.

Freshman year of high school is hard enough, but when our new crew incur the ire of the cruel nerd king Shabnam and his brutal student council, life at Kings Dominion becomes positively gnarly. Meanwhile, Saya's mysterious past comes back to haunt her, with betrayal and subterfuge around every corner. Far away from all this scheming are Marcus and Maria, rare survivors of the deadliest school on earth. But can they truly live out their days on a tranquil...