Ben Ripley is getting called into action again, but this time officially. A Chinese billionaire, whom CIA suspects is a mega criminal, is bringing his teenage daughter to Vail Colorado to learn to ski. Ben has been asked to befriend her and try to figure out her father's evil plot. Erika is coming too, as are some other of Ben's schoolmates. It's going to be a cool ski vacation, right? It starts out that way. Ben quickly makes friends with Jessica Shang, but a mission is never as easy as it seems. It isn't long before the kids are in deep snow with bullets whizzing around their heads.
I was ready for a lighthearted middle-grade and this fit the bill. The plot for each of the books in this series is basically the same, but the characters are fun and there are exciting and/or funny action sequences. The narrator is also good, doing different voices for all the characters. I really like Stuart Gibbs in general and this series in particular so I put the next in the series on hold as soon as I was finished with this one. There is a 12 month wait, so I guess I am not the only one who likes them. (2016, 368)
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