The Killing Trial (The Soldier Recruitment Trilogy)

The year is 2028 and yet another “graduating” class of young teenagers, who were raised together in Area 51, are ready to compete in a deadly game, where winning means they become one of four child soldiers who will fight in World War 3. Split into four groups, they face the possibility of being forced to fight to the death against friends and, in some cases, their own twins. When seemingly innocent children are pitted against one another, they discover where loyalties lie and what it really means to be a soldier in wartime. Innocence, idealism, faith, and even life will all end for these children as they develop into the kind of terrible soldiers that ordinary people could never imagine.