He'd also been dropping some pretty heavy hints that he knew something about what happened to our dad. Streckting kept saying that if we helped him find a certain treasure map, he'd help set Mom free. Storm, who has a photographic memory, not to mention an IQ somewhere in the stratosphere, had told us that Dionysus Streckting is considered the most nefarious, despicable, and just-plain-nasty criminal mastermind in all of Europe, including the island country of Cyprus, where a band of thugs had kidnapped our mom. Pure, undiluted, one hundred percent evil!" Adventures are like that.Įspecially when both your parents are CIA superspies and you're currently being tortured by being dangled upside down in a dungeon. In other words, don't believe everything you read or see. Honest.Īll right, already! Beck says I have to tell you that, sometimes, I make things up, too. This also explains why so many of her drawings have helpful notes like that one over there about my excess body odor. So that's the basic idea: I'm the writer my twin sis is the illustrator. Meanwhile, I'm always scribbling in my handy-dandy spiral notebook.Įxcept when I'm upside down. Wherever we go, no matter what happens, no matter how much treasure we find or how much danger her irreplaceable twin brother might be in, Beck keeps doodling in her sketchpad. In fact, Beck did all the drawings in this book. My twin sister, Rebecca, did that drawing of me being grilled by a criminal mastermind. Okay, I'll make this fast because, as you can see, I look like I might hurl.
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