<P> Ben and Cassie both enter the base . They eventually run into each other and join each other . They find Sammy, but are taunted and thwarted by the acting commander of the base, Colonel Alexander Vosch . Evan saves them and says his goodbyes to Cassie before he detonates bombs that level the base, though he is lost in the process . Cassie, Ben and Sam ride off with squad 53 as Wright - Patterson is destroyed . </P> <P> The book was adapted into a film by J Blakeson and Columbia Pictures, under the title The 5th Wave, and was released on January 22, 2016 . The film was mildly successful, though news is still pending of the production of a sequel . </P> <P> The Infinite Sea is the second installment in the series, released on September 16, 2014 . </P> <P> The book becomes much more involved with the members of squad 53 and the character Ringer . The group takes refuge in an old hotel near the ruins of Wright - Patterson, at Cassie's insistence that Evan is still alive . Ringer sets out to find an alternate route, though it goes awry when she mistakes Teacup, a small girl of the squad, for a silencer, shoots her, and is taken by an approaching helicopter . Evan is revealed to have survived, having been rescued by another silencer named Grace . Evan attempts to kill Grace after he finds out she is hunting Cassie, and though he fails, he manages to flee during an attack by hidden assailants . Evan finds the hotel Cassie is stationed at, though he is shot and knocked out in a misunderstanding with squad 53 . Cassie tends to him, while Ben angrily awaits his awakening . Later, a helicopter quickly flies over the hotel, and then a small girl, whom Sammy identifies as one Megan, appears . Evan wakes up and warns them that she is rigged with a bomb that explodes when it comes into contact with human breath . Evan and Cassie extract the bomb from Megan's throat . Grace appears and, after a violent confrontation, is killed when Private Poundcake detonates the bomb, killing himself too . </P>

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