"After taking down a mole within their organization, the City Spies are ready for their next mission--once again using their unique skills and ability to infiltrate places adults can't. The sinister Umbra has their sights set on recruiting a North Koreannu clear physicist by any means necessary, and the City Spies plan to keep an eye on his son by sending Paris to the chess prodigy's tournaments in Moscow and Beijing. Meanwhile, Sydney's embedded...

One day, Mac (smartest boy in his class in a small town in California) receives a telephone call from the Queen of England, recruiting him to find the crown jewels (well, actually just the Coronation Spoon) and so Mac embarks on his first adventure as a secret agent--with the assurance that the Queen will give him a note excusing him from school.

Mac Barnett est aujourd'hui un auteur, mais durant son enfance dans les années 1980, il était un espion au service de la reine d'Angleterre. Cette dernière le contacte dans sa petite ville de Californie, où il vit avec sa mère, parce qu'il a les meilleures notes de sa classe, sauf en écriture. Ceci fait néanmoins de lui le héros tout désigné pour mettre la main au collet des vilains qui s'en prennent aux objets.

Agent Jon is travelling back through time. Back to the Stone Age, over 200,000 years ago, where he talks to the dinosaurs, befriends a strange tribe of blue elephants and tries to find the president's daughter and a mysterious creature called the Entity.

"When rare paintings go missing, the InvestiGators are called on the scene...the ART SCENE! Mango and Brash go undercover and under canvas as internationally renowned painters to expose a crook who has truly mastered the art of CRIME! Can they recover the missing masterpieces and save the city art museum's fundraising gala before it's too late...and they run out of appetizers? Find out in this latest pic̈e de ršistance of action-packed illustrated...