Modo?s discovery that he is French and was born near Notre Dame makes him question his allegiance to the British Permanent Association. He embarks on a personal mission to find his parents, but will they reject him all over again? Or worse, will sinister forces get to them first?

The first volume in ARTHUR SLADE's Hunchback Assignments series won the prestigious TD Canadian Children's Literature Award, and the second volume, The Dark Deeps, was a finalist for the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award and the CLA Young Adult Book Award. Slade is also the author of Dust, a national bestseller and the winner of the 2001 Governor General's Award for Children's Literature, the Mr. Christie's Book Award and the Saskatchewan Book Award for Children's Literature. His other books include Tribes, Megiddo's Shadow, Jolted, Monsterology, Villainology and the Canadian Chills series. He lives in Saskatoon. Visit him online at arthurslade.com.