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Format: Quality Paperback, Unabridged-CD
Publisher: Yearling Books
Published: Apr 2008
Genre: Children & Young Adults Fiction - Mysteries & Detective Stories
Retail Price: $9.99
Ages: 10 - 14 Pages: 279
Stevie Thomas and Susan Carol Anderson return in another fast-paced, action-packed sports mystery. The two teenage sports reporters have kept in touch after their wild time at the Final Four, and when Susan Carol manages to score a press pass to cover the first week of the U.S. Open Tennis Tournament in New York, Stevie works out a way to be there as well. The behind-the-scenes action in the world of professional tennis is occasionally bewildering, but it turns downright inconceivable when a young Russian phenom, Natalia Makarova, disappears right before her second-round match. Everyone is looking for Natalia–including Stevie and Susan Carol. The rumors are growing wilder by the hour. But they don't even come close to the shocking truth. . . .
Stevie and Susan Carol are back at the Open catching a strategic kidnapping that endangers a new friend who is a tennis star, but reveals the corruption of a close friend. Clean prose, good pacing, a good story. Not quite the drama and intrigue of the first one, but a fun time. Narrated by the author, he is quite good at giving his characters and events life.