The Eye of Minds is the first novel in the Mortality Doctrine series set in a world of hyper-advanced technology, cyberterrorists, and gaming beyond your wildest dreams . . . and your worst nightmares. Michael is a gamer. And like most gamers, he almost spends more time on the VirtNet than in the actual world. The VirtNet offers total mind and body immersion, and the more hacking skills you have, the more fun. (http://dashnerarmy.com/the-mortality-doctrine-series/). The Eye of The Minds is about a creature named Kaine and he is killing people inside a place called the VirtNet. The VirtNet is a place that people can go into a coffin, a gamer bed that has effects on you. So if you get hurt by a punch it will give you a sample of the pain. So there's an organization called the VNS, the VNS purpose is to get Kaine shut down. So when the VNS finds some hackers and the hackers are the 3 main characters Michael, Sarah, and Bryson. The VNS grabs Michael first in the real world not in the VirtNet. They tell Michael all about Kaine and what he's been doing around the Virtual Net. He's been sending Killsims around the virtual net and the Killsims are Kaine's creation, they have "only dark shadows and yellow eyes" (page 79). They suck the life out of you in the virtual net and make it possible to be killed in real life while in the coffin. Kaine has Allies that the VNS don't know about. Michael and his friends needed to know where to look to find Kaine's hideout and the only way to find out where to look is to find Cutter at his Old's Man Barbershop. He tells them about a girl who knows about where Kaine is.