Crime Travelers starts fast and speeds to a rousing conclusion. Large groups of kids and even babies are being Brainwashed and disappearing.Danger lurks from page one all the way through the book. Pack up and join the Crime Travelers on their exciting adventure to France. Happy summer vacation Time to take a trip. Racing and whirling through all the major attractions in Paris, this is more of a travelogue than a nefarious story, and kids from 10 and up should relish its campy flavor of excitement and thrills. Crime Travelers Brainwashed, by Paul Aertker Recommended for ages 8 12, Middle Grade. Lucas and a group of teens fight the Good Company, an organization that is anything but. The book follows 13-year-old Lucas Benes, a typical kid who sleeps on the roof of a hotel, saves kidnapped babies, and rappels through windows. This international action-packed series from Amazon best-selling and award-winning author Paul Aertker is a mind-opening adventure for elementary and middle-grade fans of Gordon Korman, James Patterson, and Stuart Gibbs.įans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid will appreciate the step up in smart listening.Ĭrime Travelers: Brainwashed is a novel aimed at the pre-teen market, and it hits the mark.

Lucas leads a group of friends through the hotspots of Paris - from the catacombs to the Eiffel tower - in an all-out effort to sabotage a brainwashing ceremony that could potentially turn them all into 'good' kids. Brainwashed (Crime Travelers Spy Series book number one) tracks the secret urban adventures of the new resistance, a school of international teenage spies.

While sleeping on the roof of his father's hotel-spy school, 13-year-old Lucas Benes finds a baby alone and learns that the Good Company has restarted its profitable brainwashing business. Brainwashed marks the explosive beginning of The Crime Travelers Adventure Series. Lucas and friends speed in and around Rome from the Colosseum to the Vatican until they stowaway on a cargo ship carrying diamonds that could unlock the secret to Lucass past and destroy the Good Companys future.

Brainwashed by Paul Aertker