We learn a lot more about Kat and her abilities in this volume. A coded scavenger hunt of sorts sends our intrepid young spies on a number of different sorties to find information, and they eventually end up in Egypt, in the Valley of the Kings! I find that I don't want to say too much about why they do there, or what they do, because everything unfolds in such a fun way, and I don't want to ruin the intricate unfolding of events!Įven though there is a rather large cast, I am able to keep the characters separated in my mind, which speaks to the quality of the character development. Kat, in particular, starts to see some patterns emerge in seemingly random outages of the subway system and other London locations. After some underground adventures and some explosives, they find out that there is more to this mission than they first believed. The children are sent to 'retrieve' items from the British Museum, which seems a bit odd. This time, Mother's past seems bound up with the current problem. We've heard snippets of the story, but are usually too caught up in the current mission to learn more. He was rescued by the first City Spy, Paris, but Clementine has been on the run with their two children, and the suspicion is that she is working for Umbra, which is evil. The fascinating, unexplored storyline in City Spies, Golden Gate, and Forbidden City that has most intrigued me was Mother's abandonment in a burning building by his wife and fellow spy, Clementine. And it’s also going to bring about a change to the City Spies…

With more players, more clues, and involving higher levels of British Intelligence than ever before, this mission is one of the most complex that the group has faced to date. So when a series of cyberattacks hits key locations in London while the spies are testing security for the British Museum, it’s clear that Kat’s skill for finding reason in what seems like randomness makes her the perfect candidate to lead the job.Īnd while the team follows the deciphered messages to Egypt and the ancient City of the Dead to discover who is behind the attacks and why, Kat soon realizes that there’s another layer to the mystery. Ĭodename Kathmandu, better known as Kat, loves logic and order, has a favorite eight-digit number, and can spot a pattern from a mile away. In this fourth installment in the New York Times bestselling series from Edgar Award winner James Ponti, the young group of spies go codebreaking in Cairo in another international adventure perfect for fans of Spy School and Mrs.

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