Eli knows that he must get his family out of the compound before she dies. Before passing out again, Rex leaves Eli with a clue about how to open the locked door of the compound.Ĭlea, still pregnant, begins to bleed heavily. Rex is knocked unconscious and is taken to the compound’s infirmary. He arranged their food shortages in order to see if they were willing to be strong survivors even if it meant resorting to cannibalism. He says he wanted to see how they would handle challenges and adversity. Eddy promises to find Eli.Įli confronts Rex about his deception, and Rex admits that he engineered his family’s imprisonment. Eddy tells Eli that Rex has a family history of insanity and that Eli and the rest of the family are in danger. Rex made it appear as if all of his family, except Eddy, died in a fire when they left.

Eddy had believed that his parents and siblings were dead. Eli discovers that there was no nuclear fallout. Eli manages to access the Internet, and he communicates with his twin brother, Eddy, who is still alive outside the compound. Eli develops a deep love for the children and tries to convince Lexie that they should stand up against their father and keep him from his plan to eventually kill the children.Įli discovers that the Internet works in the vicinity of his father’s study, though Rex never told the rest of the family. The children’s names are Lucas, Quinn and Cara. Eli gives in to his mother’s request to meet the Supplements. Eli does not want Rex to clone members of the family in order to have a larger supply of meat. Rex shows Eli a special laboratory where he plans to clone a human being. Eli’s mom cares about the Supplements, but Eli does not want to get attached to them because he knows that his father intends for these children to be a food source for the older family members. These three children live in a yellow room in the compound, but Eli avoids going near the room. The three youngest Yanakakis children are called the Supplements, and Eli has never met them.

Eli’s mom, Clea, is pregnant with her fourth child in six years. Life in the compound is getting more difficult. Six years later, Eli wonders if his brother may have somehow survived the fallout outside the family compound. Eli enters the compound with his parents, his older sister, Lexie, and his younger sister, Therese. Rex accidentally leaves behind his son Eddy, who is Eli’s twin. When a nuclear bomb falls on the United States, Rex brings his family into a large, furnished fallout shelter. Eli Yanakakis is the 9-year-old son of billionaire Rex Yanakakis, a man obsessed with the possibility of nuclear war.

The Compound by S.A. Bodeen