Although I’ve never worked in a school as rural as the one described here, it seems unlikely that a sixth-grade boy is the star of the middle school football team. It was clear that this book was going to be a bit confusing because of the complexity of the story, which is okay because it is a true story and is told how it happened. Unfortunately, it just didn’t add enough to the original story for me at all, and the balance of emotional connection and plot was not right. I also was a bit thrown by the heavy use of cell phones on a school field trip, but that is me being dated – those early ones I chaperoned are now a bygone era!

Alex scolds Damon, who is frustrated that Alex missed a meeting to allow Damon to attend a prep school, Cushing Academy, in Ashburnham Massachusetts. Abby and her classmates have all been invited to Briar Academy to participate in The Challenge, a prep school competition where teams compete for prizes and the glory of being the best of the best. While tracking down Bell's former house, a cabin in the woods, Alex and Bree learn that Bell had purchased milk days before he was last seen, causing Alex to get suspicious.

I wanted a par of both of them, and even though the action and plot were exceptional, it didn’t win me over, just made the book very readable! We both had some intellectual pretensions,” wrote Popov, but “[we were] addicted to sports cars and sporting girls and had enough money to keep them both running. Popov was a law student, while Jebsen was taking an economics degree, the better to manage the family firm. Facebook sets this cookie to show relevant advertisements to users by tracking user behaviour across the web, on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin.

Alex learns the attempts to track the woman who had delivered the message, but she escapes in her car. In fact, the `game' of course was deadly, and the double agents were dangerously playing not only with their own lives, but the lives of thousands of others. This book is intended to be interesting to a select audience, which is okay if the reader is part of this group. I would highly recommend this entry in the series and can’t wait to continue with the fifth novel in the series, Crossfire. The whole idea of spying in its purest sense (in other words, individuals scampering around rather than radio interception and the rest) just does not work very well.Drawing on recently declassified files, this book reveals how, while pretending to spy for the Germans, he fed them false information about Allied troop deployments and strategy, misleading the Afrika Korps and saving Malta from German occupation. The outcome of the second world war was decided by many millions of people first making and then handling industrial equipment to kill one another on an inconceivably terrible scale. Under the direction of an eccentric but brilliant intelligence officer in tartan trousers, working from a smoky lair in St James's, these spies would weave a web of deception so intricate that it ensnared Hitler's army and helped to carry thousands of troops across the Channel in safety.