First published in the United States of America in July 2015
by Bloomsbury Children’s Books
This electronic edition published in July 2015
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Pearce, Jackson.
The doublecross : (and other skills I learned as a superspy) / by Jackson Pearce.
pages cm
Summary: Overweight and non-athletic, twelve-year-old Hale may have been born and raised to be a spy for the Sub Rosa Society but it seems he is unlikely to become a field agent until his parents are captured by the evil League and Hale sets out on a solo mission to save them.
[1. Spies—Fiction. 2. Schools—Fiction. 3. Family life—Fiction. 4. Missing persons—Fiction. 5. Overweight persons—Fiction. 6. Ability—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.P31482Dou 2015 [Fic]—dc23 2014025349
eISBN: 978-1-61963-415-2
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