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-{{infobox Book | <!-- See [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels]] or [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Books]] -->
-| name          = The Absolute
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-| image_caption = Marco morphs into a [[mallard]]
-| author        = [[K. A. Applegate]]
-| illustrator   = David B. Mattingly
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-| country       = [[United States]]
-| language      = [[English language|English]]
-| series        = [[Animorphs]] #51
-| genre         = [[Science fiction]] [[novel]]
-| publisher     = [[Scholastic Press|Scholastic]]
-| release_date  =  [[2001]]
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-| media_type    = Print ([[Paperback]])
-| pages         = 149 pp
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-| followed_by   = [[The Sacrifice (Animorphs)|The Sacrifice]]
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-'''''The Absolute''''', published in 2001, is the fifty-first book in the '''[[Animorphs]]''' series, written by [[K.A. Applegate]]. It is narrated by [[Marco (Animorphs)|Marco]].
-==Plot Summary==
-The books opens with Marco and [[Tobias (Animorphs)|Tobias]] in bird morph, surveying a [[freight train]] transporting [[tanks]] into the city. They are spotted and attacked by Controllers in [[bird of prey]] morph, revealing that the Yeerks now have the ability to morph after obtaining the [[Escafil device]] in the previous book. Marco and Tobias escape by stealing a tank, which they use to demolish [[List of minor humans (Animorphs)#Hedrick Chapman|Chapman]]'s house before fleeing.
-Back in the Hork-Bajir valley, the Animorphs speculate that the Yeerks are planning to infest the state's National Guard en masse. A personal issue is also presented in the form of Jake's [[depression (mood)|depression]], which affects the [[morale]] of the group.
-Jake decides to send Marco, Tobias and [[Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill|Ax]] to the state capitol to warn the [[governor]] of the Yeerk plot, while he, Cassie, Rachel and the [[Auxiliary Animorphs]] attempt to slow the Yeerks down with the usual assault tactics. Marco's team infiltrates The Gardens to acquire [[mallard ducks]] for the long distance flight to the capitol. Here they are again attacked by Controllers with the morphing ability, but manage to escape.
-They arrive at the capitol and locate the governor in [[cockroach]] morph, eventually demorphing and revealing themselves to her when she is alone (except for her husband and bodyguards). Unfortunately, her husband is a Controller, and alerts the Yeerks. Marco, Tobias, and Ax grab the governor and race through the streets of the capitol while being pursued by the Yeerks. After destroying a [[helicopter]] and a [[yacht]], they lose their pursuers and return to the Governor's mansion to explain the situation to her.
-The governor is accepting of the danger, and calls in a group of National Guardsmen who have been doing training missions in the desert for the last few weeks, and can therefore be assumed to be uninfested. Unfortunately an infested [[company (military)|company]] arrives first with the intention of kidnapping the governor. Marco deceives them by morphing the governor, letting himself be captured by the Yeerks, and being rescued by Tobias and Ax (meanwhile, the real governor escapes).
-Marco, Tobias and Ax return to the Hork-Bajir valley in time to see the Governor issue a televised warning about the Yeerk invasion.
-===Contributions to the Series' Story Arc===
-*The series' final story arc begins
-*The Controllers now have the ability to morph.
-*The Yeerk invasion is revealed to the public.
-==New morphs==
-*Tobias: [[Mallard Duck]]
-*Ax: [[Mallard Duck]]
-*Marco: [[Mallard Duck]], Human (State Governor)
-==Trivia==
-{{trivia|date=December 2007}}
-*This book is the second to feature a cross-gender morph. In the book, Marco morphs the female governor in order to protect her from being killed.
-*This book is the first of the "countdown" books; as such, it is the first to feature the new back-cover [[Animorphs#Books|text]].
-*Marco uses a Dracon beam to shoot down a Controller's helicopter, which is possibly the first instance of any Animorph deliberately taking a human life ending (even a Yeerk host body). Marco used no morph.
-*Cover Quote: The countdown has begun...
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