It starts with a mysterious Russian woman with rainbow-colored spiked hair and granny boots. She thrusts a cheap toy robot into the hands of an unsuspecting student and runs off into the crowd at the university mall. Two hours later, she falls to her death from the top of a high-rise building.
The police think it's suicide. But Christopher Robin Harris knows better. Soon he finds himself in the middle of an awesome plot that seems to have been lifted directly from one of his father's old "Spy Squad" episodes.
For it turns out that Evan Harris is indeed a real spy - and Robin and his two equally eccentric brothers have inadvertently walked onto the scene of a real life - and death - spy drama. And as far as the free world is concerned, Robin's entrance into the family business comes not a moment too soon.
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Christopher Robin rolled onto his back.
Over the past seven days, he thought, I have been followed, kidnapped, beaten, confined to a ward full of refugees from Dawn of the Dead, pursued to the point of collapse and subjected to the worst single motor-vehicle accident of my life.
I have been entrusted with the details concerning the fate of the known universe. I've put my neck on the line and produced maps so that spies could break into Vancouver's top rock radio station and wreak havoc upon its entire sales department.
I've battered poor Rolf into another dimension of consciousness. Berringer and Grosch are still after me, propelled by the most pitiful state of misguided ignorance I've ever encountered. The KGB wants to make me a citizen of the Gulag Archipelago.
Pastor Preston Woods who has been hurt so much in the past is seeking a fresh start in the small town of Pinecrest. But when he arrives, he finds himself in the middle of a town struggling with deep-rooted corruption, and a community divided by secre
Amateur sleuth and cobbler Fulton Moon (yes, his nickname is Full Moon) encounters beautiful and sinister Lucinda Mathews. Lucy, wife of prominent florist Arthur Mathews, wants to escape an abusive husband and Moon only wants to help. It isn’t that
Amateur sleuth and cobbler Fulton Moon (yes, his nickname is Full Moon) encounters beautiful and sinister Lucinda Mathews. Lucy, wife of prominent florist Arthur Mathews, wants to escape an abusive husband and Moon only wants to help. It isn’t that
