Kat was the alpha on this mission, which meant she had to come up with the plan to break into the British Museum. That means they’ll be elsewhere, which dramatically improves the probability of us not getting caught.” “The police will be spread thin, and there are no celebrations scheduled for Bloomsbury. “Which is exactly why we’re going to be here,” Kat said. It’s going to be huge and everyone’s going to be there.” All I asked was that we slide the break-in a couple hours so we could see the fireworks at Battersea Park. “I’m not pouting,” Sydney said defensively. I was under the impression nobody cared what I had to say.” “Or is it because you’re still pouting?”Īfter a moment, Sydney replied, “I’m sorry. “Sydney, are you not responding because you can’t hear me?” Kat asked. There was a pause as they waited for a final voice to check in. “Testing comms, one, two, three,” Kat said into the microphone hidden in the red remembrance poppy pinned to her lapel. They were on display at one of the busiest museums in the world. And the artifacts they sought weren’t concealed in some long-forgotten tomb. They were going to sneak through one in an abandoned section of the London Underground. Except they weren’t going to dig a tunnel in the desert. Like Howard Carter, they were looking to recover treasures of Egyptian antiquity. ON A SLATE GRAY NOVEMBER day, one hundred years after the discovery of Tutankhamen’s tomb, a group of five young people converged in a part of London known as Bloomsbury. And it’s also going to bring about a change to the City Spies… ExcerptĬhapter 1: British Museum 1.
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. Smith’s Spy School for Girls.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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