He can jump away, but anywhere away from the house the device triggers immediately and he instantly finds himself within the box on the floor. Millie sets out to find and rescue David with help from members of the NSA and, later, the FBI.ĭavid becomes so conditioned to the device that the shackles are removed. His shackles give him the run of the room, but at random intervals he is signaled to jump to a painted box on the floor in the center of the room, or else the device is triggered. She uses a rope to descend from the cave entrance, but the rope's anchor breaks and she falls that is when she first discovers that she has gained the ability to 'jump'.ĭavid's captors have implanted him with a device that can trigger his vagus nerve, causing him to become violently ill. Without David, Millie is stranded at their secret hideaway: a cliff wall cave in a remote part of Texas. When he tries to 'jump', the shackles pull him back violently from wherever he attempts to go. When David awakens, he is shackled to the wall of a windowless room at an undisclosed location. The novel tells the story from David's and Millie's perspectives in alternating chapters.ĭuring a meeting with Brian Cox, his NSA handler, Brian is killed, and David is tranquilized and kidnapped by a powerful criminal organization with influence over the NSA and other government agencies. Set ten years after the conclusion of Jumper, David Rice- a young adult man with the rare spatial ability to teleport both short and long distances- has married Millie and occasionally works for the National Security Agency, only accepting jobs that he finds to be morally acceptable. ( November 2016) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) You can provide one by editing this article. Now, if she can learn to control this ability, and fast, she may be able to rescue Davy.This section needs an improved plot summary. She discovered her new talent the same way Davy did - in mortal danger, facing imminent death, she suddenly found herself in her own apartment. Davy's wife Millie is the only person on Earth who has teleported nearly as often as he has. The secret is that experiencing teleportation, over and over again, can teach a person how to do it.

But there's one thing that they don't know. And so they set about brainwashing him and conditioning him, and they have found a way to keep a teleport captive. They want to use his abilities for their own purposes, whether Davy agrees to it or not. They don't want to hire him, and they don't have any hope of appealing to him to help them. Now, a mysterious group of people has taken Davy captive. Later, he learned to control his ability, and went to work for a secret government agency. At first, it was only when he was terrified and in horrible danger. Davy thinks he's alone.what if he isn't? When Davy was a young teen, he discovered that he was capable of teleportation.

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