Paul AertkerPaul Aertker writes the Crime Travelers Spy Mystery series, a squeaky-clean international action-adventure collection, for kids. As a traveler and multilingual teacher, Aertker (pronounced AirT Kerr) has clocked nearly half his life outside the US. Wen he was a teenager, he slept on the streets of London to watch a royal wedding. He took the CIA exam because he wanted to be a spy for the good guys (and not the "Good Company"). He was an au pair in France and built a children's library in Africa. SYNOPSIS FOR BRAINWASHED (CRIME TRAVELERS SPY MYSTERY SERIES BOOK #1): While sleeping on the roof of his father's hotel, thirteen-year-old Lucas Benes finds a baby alone and learns that the Good Company has restarted its profitable kidnapping business. Brainwashed (Crime Travelers Book #1) tracks the secret urban adventures of the New Resistance, a network of international teenage spies. Lucas leads a group of friends through the hotspots of Paris--from the catacombs to the Eiffel tower--in an all-out effort to sabotage a brainwashing ceremony that could potentially turn them all into "Good" kids. (ISBN-13: 978-1-940137-11-7) #1 Amazon Best Seller in Children's Travel Books. SYNOPSIS FOR DIAMONDS ARE FOR NEVER (CRIME TRAVELERS SPY MYSTERY SERIES BOOK #2): After sabotaging a mass kidnapping in Paris, Lucas Benes faces a new and perilous threat from Siba Gnerro and her anything-but-good Good Company. When a briefcase-toting kid from the Falkland Islands joins the New Resistance, 14-year-old Lucas learns the truth about his mother and becomes a boy on a mission. Lucas and friends speed in and around Rome--from the Colosseum to the Vatican--until they stowaway on a cargo ship carrying diamonds that could unlock the secret to Lucas's past and destroy the Good Company's future. In this action-packed second installment of the Crime Travelers collection, author Paul Aertker takes readers on a gripping world tour filled with adrenaline, humor, and pure excitement. (ISBN 978-1-940137-25-4 / eISBN 978-1-940137-26-1) More information @ http: //www.crimetravelers.com/ Ages 10 and up will love this series' campy flavor. Parents, teachers, and librarians will appreciate the worldwide geography and appropriate language. A reluctant reader's dream. For boys, girls, (and adults who may act like children: ). Read More Read Less