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smile. ‘Give me five minutes.’
    Max, Grace and Sasha watched through the office window as Georgie went into action. Sheheld her hand against her forehead and almost fainted. Her mother helped her to a seat while she disappeared in search of a cold pack.
    Max was impressed.
    The instant her mum left the room, Georgie was on the computer, operating the student database like she did it every day.
    â€˜She’s obviously done this before,’ Max guessed.
    â€˜Oh, lots of times.’ Sasha watched in admiration.
    Georgie wrote on a piece of paper and moved back to her chair just as her mother re-entered the room. None of the girls were surprised to see Georgie suddenly feeling better, and within thirty seconds she was standing next to them with the number.
    Georgie handed it over. ‘I expect the autograph by the end of the week.’
    â€˜Sure. Thanks.’
    â€˜Oh, and Max? Don’t think because of this you need to start talking to us.’
    Max was relieved they were thinking the same thing. ‘Fine by me.’
    As they walked away, the bell chimed for class. Max picked up her bag and folded the number into her pocket, frowning. She’d face the English testnow and work out later how she was actually going to use the number without sounding like a complete idiot. Her life was sometimes very strange, and today was proving no different.

This was not their usual assignment.
    Max looked at her watch again and wondered what she was doing here. She was a good agent, one of Spyforce’s best, yet here she was nestled behind a blackberry bush playing babysitter to a spoilt rich kid.
    â€˜Ow!’ Her finger sprang into her mouth. ‘If I get stabbed one more time by a thorn, I’m going to sink the next time I go swimming.’
    Linden smirked and looked away, deciding it was best not to answer. Max’s mood was nosediving with each thorny prick and even if he’d tried to sympathise, he knew he would only make it worse.
    The kid they were guarding was Tobias Reardon, the son of an important foreign minister visiting England to discuss a peace plan aimed at settling decades of Middle East conflict. Many held high hopes for its success, but it was so controversial, the government feared opponents of the plan would do anything they could to ruin the talks. Even kidnap family. And because Tobias had an unfortunate habit of disappearing to explore his new surrounds, Max and Linden were put on assignment to make sure he didn’t disappear for good.
    With his miniature, high-powered binoculars, Linden peered into the Safe House Tobias and hisfamily had been placed in. Tobias was reading, while his mother sat at her computer. Nothing suspicious. Nothing out of the ordinary.
    The house was an unassuming, three-storey London terrace that sat at the edge of a small green square speckled with benches, trees and neatly swept paths. The sun shone, birds tweeted, old couples strolled and Max counted the wasted minutes of her life that might as well have been flushed down the toilet.
    â€˜If I’d wanted an assignment this exciting, I could have asked to have my brain removed and sent to Siberia.’
    â€˜I hear it’s a nice place.’ Sometimes Linden couldn’t help himself. He was right, though. Answering didn’t help Max’s mood.
    â€˜Is that right? Well …’
    â€˜Hold on, Max.’ Linden refocused his binoculars and flinched at what he saw. ‘He’s gone.’
    The words sat in the air between them like a bad smell.
    â€˜Gone?’
    â€˜He must have slipped out.’
    When Harrison had given them the mission, he told them that if anything happened to Tobias the security of the whole country, even the world, would be in terrible danger.
    Then Linden spied something else. ‘That car. Look.’ A black sedan with tinted windows was parked near Tobias’s house.
    â€˜And I’ll bet that’s the owner.’
    Linden