**With a hilarious and charismatic cast of characters, this start to a fresh middle grade action-adventure series is part** Spy Kids **and all fun!** Everyone in twelve-year-old Hale’s family is a spy, going way back. They’ve all worked for the Sub Rosa Society, an elite organization that’s so top secret that new agents aren’t recruited; they’re born. His parents may be the ultimate spy team at SRS, but Hale isn’t your typical stealthy spy–he is, as his mother puts it, big-boned, and as some of his classmates put it, fat. Still, he’s convinced he will someday be a great field agent. After all, it’s his legacy. But when both his mother and father go missing on a secret mission–likely captured by the SRS’s number one enemy–it’s Hale’s time to step up and (with a little help from his acrobat-cheerleader little sister) save the day. **Don’t miss these other books from Jackson Pearce:** *The Doublecross* *The Inside Job* **The Ellie, Engineer series** *Ellie, Engineer* *Ellie, Engineer: The Next Level* *Ellie, Engineer: In the Spotlight*