

<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
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The Story Begins... Fourteen-year-old Jake had ignored the letters marked
"Highly Confidential" for too long, so they sent him a message he couldn^t
miss. "Don’t even think about screaming, new kid. Very bad things will
happen if you scream." And that^s when Jake stopped pretending to be a
spy. Because the others weren^t pretending at all.</span></strong></p>



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supplements are not guaranteed with used items.</span></strong></p>

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font-weight:normal" lang="EN-US">was born on 12 December 1976, in Goldsboro, North Carolina,
United States. He is an American science fiction and fantasy writer and poet.
He won a Hugo Award in 2007 for his short story "Impossible Dreams".
He has written over 20 books, including the Marla Mason series and several
Pathfinder Tales novels. He lives in Berkeley, CA, United States.</span></strong></p>

