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Clean Slate
Kaspar Dieter isn’t your typical foreign exchange student. He’s a member of the top-secret Swiss facility that trains super spies and contracts their services out to different countries. He can knock a person out with the pinch of his fingers, speak seven languages fluently, and save countries from the brink of nuclear war – sometimes in the same day. To train for his 16th Year Assignment, which determines his placement post-graduation, Kaspar is assigned to live in a small town in America, whose residents obsess over him as much as he’s puzzled by them.
Mary Blanche Dixon is a last-minute replacement in her overbearing mother’s dance troupe, which embarrasses itself annually at the Autumn Fair. Much to the displeasure of her mother, Mary Blanche can’t dance, and she prays the audience is limited to people with memory disorders and the little boy she babysits, Al.
On the day of the fair, Kaspar and Mary Blanche find themselves entangled when Al unknowingly compromises the big Assignment. Flung onto a perilous path fraught with dark secrets, Kaspar must carefully navigate not only the blowback from the botched affair, but also his bewildering feelings for Mary Blanche. And just when he thinks order has been restored, no amount of training can prepare Kaspar for one last ticking time bomb of betrayal.
Mary Blanche Dixon is a last-minute replacement in her overbearing mother’s dance troupe, which embarrasses itself annually at the Autumn Fair. Much to the displeasure of her mother, Mary Blanche can’t dance, and she prays the audience is limited to people with memory disorders and the little boy she babysits, Al.
On the day of the fair, Kaspar and Mary Blanche find themselves entangled when Al unknowingly compromises the big Assignment. Flung onto a perilous path fraught with dark secrets, Kaspar must carefully navigate not only the blowback from the botched affair, but also his bewildering feelings for Mary Blanche. And just when he thinks order has been restored, no amount of training can prepare Kaspar for one last ticking time bomb of betrayal.
270 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 23, 2014
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Fred Bortimel
1 bookI write YA and MG fiction. I'm bad at being clever on command. However, I'm extravagantly talented at being boring on command.
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November 27, 2014
This was a suspenseful novel that I enjoyed reading. It has been a while since I read it, so I don't remember a lot. It is sort of a young adult mystery/espionage story with interwoven plots. The kind of book that keeps you reading until the end!
PS:
It also happens to be written by my nephew which was my initial reason for reading it.
PS:
It also happens to be written by my nephew which was my initial reason for reading it.
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