Fourteen-year-old Wyatt avoids a prison sentence by agreeing to spend three months in a secret government training camp for teenage agents, but when enemies try to root out Camp Valor's secrets, Wyatt and his friends have to put their training into practice to protect their country.

he Time of the Hero, translated to more than thirty languages, is set in the Leoncio Prado Military School. The protagonists of the novel, a group of young people who are "educated" in a ruthless, violent military discipline, learn to survive in an atmosphere in which racial, social, and economic prejudice is deeply rooted; where everyone shows a false fa?ade, and the transgression of established norms seems to be the only out. The edition is completed...

"Taking place years before the ... Ember in the Ashes novel series, this standalone original graphic novel follows three young military recruits--Elias, Helene, and Tavi--during their brutal training as soldiers for the Martial Empire"--Publisher marketing.

What does it take to become one of the finest soldiers in the world? Find out in this exciting look inside the U.S. Army's basic combat training.