Fifteen-year-old Rwanda-born Paris is a chess prodigy whose skills become part of the mission, taking the team to international tournaments in Moscow and Beijing. There's peril aplenty, but also strong teamwork and clever use of skills. North Korea's perfectly prepared to kill them both to keep them away from the many agencies - including a nuke-stealing crime syndicate - who want them.
The mission here involves a heavily guarded nuclear physicist from North Korea, and MI6's plans to help him defect to the West, along with his teen chess prodigy son. Parents need to know that Forbidden City is the third installment of James Ponti's City Spies series, which features a diverse cast of 12- to 15-year-old characters with an equally diverse range of talents, working as a special team for British spy agency MI6.
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