Thirteen-year-old Andrew works with his father and his best friend, Brian, to find his mother, who goes missing on the eve of a G8 summit in Halifax, and learns that she may be in deeper trouble than he thought.

Andrew's mother, Marion, works for Epsom Electronics, a security company that makes high-tech spy gear. When she goes missing on the eve of a G8 summit in Halifax, Andrew and his father work desperately to find her. Luckily, Andrew and his best friend are no strangers to danger, and they follow Andrew's instincts-contrary to his father?s instructions. When the two friends are nearly caught in an explosion at Citadel Hill, Andrew realizes his mother could be in even more trouble than he thought. Enlisting help from a credulous news reporter, the boys chase clues all over the HRM, narrowly avoiding serious harm. Finally, they uncover a top-secret assassination plot-but are they just a little too late?

Bash is a spy, a special kind of spy, caught up in the devious intrigue of naval Intelligence during the war in Vietnam. Hes handsome, clever, and smartessential prerequisites for honey trap assignments. He seduces foreign agents and is well aware that they welcome his intentions if only to gather intelligence of their own. What he doesnt know is that they have another purpose as wella double or triple agenda to get from him the secret he doesnt even realizes he knows. Bash lives in a world of lies, half-truths at best, as befitting his role. But this unknown secret insinuates itself to the point that he becomes awash in his own paranoia. The action careens from those spy days to the present and back againin New York, Paris, Hong Kong, London, Saigon, Washington, East Germany, culminating in the secret all had sought, a secret so hidden that it threatens his present life twenty years later.

Zach asked Josie what she really thought of the present state of affairs. Im tempted to use that line from my favorite movie, Frankly, my dear, I dont give a damn. Okay, Scarlet. But surely you are concerned over whats been going on. That famous memory of yours must be putting what do you call them? Oh, yes, patches. Arent you putting two and two together and getting five? Thats what you usually do. It was Josies turn to laugh. Honestly, Zach, what Im putting together reads like a script for a bad spy movie. We have nothing but red herrings, a mishmash of motley characters from various parts of the globe, more spies than villains, an attempted kidnapping, a fistfight, a car chase, a car blown up, a car accident, an escape on a motorcycle, nefarious thugs, virtuous good guys, covert agencies falling over covert agencies, a safe house or hideout, as the case may be, drug smuggling, romantic intrigue, false passports, not to mention changing locales: an offshore bank, an Irish pub, a travel plaza, a small animal hospital, and marinas up and down the east coast. We even have a plateful of old ops: Seagull, Mulberry Bush, Polaris. Ive even had to revisit the Patches program. The inmates are running the asylum. So you think were being set up? Thats what bothers me. Just what are we doing in this particular script? Why Chipley Island? Why round up all these old spies? Why here?

Sarah J. Maas hit the New York Times SERIES list at #1 with A Court of Wings and Ruin!