Suspense builds in the Scorch Trials

I am now completing the Scorch Trials, by James Dashner, and it has turned out to be a much better book than I had expected. The best thing about it is how the author creates suspense- at one moment you think you have everything figured out, and then suddenly that turns out to be a part of something much larger. Many authors often tell you everything you need to know about the characters and the world they live in right away. The Scorch Trials, however, diverges from this formula. Little to nothing is known about WICKED, the organization that is putting the two groups of children into a series of trials to test survival. The few times they are mentioned, people who claim to work for the organization explain that despite the evil sounding acronym, the organization has good motives and is the World in Catastrophe, Kill zone Experiment Department. Upon being "rescued" from the Maze trial, readers are provided with clues as to why the organization exists. They have something to do with a sun flare disease that slowly degrades people until they are no different from any other animals.

This seems strange though, and the sun flare theory might just be a cover-up for something more dangerous going on. There are several holes in the idea that sun flares can somehow give people a disease. First of all, the sun is more than 90 million miles from the earth and has no life at all. What if the WICKED organization truly is what its title describes it as? And what if they are trying to conquer the world by infecting its population? But how does that account for the experiments that are being performed?

Every new possibility in the Maze Runner series opens a new set of questions. I guess I just have to read on to figure out the answers.