Enemy Exposure (Raven Files Series #2)

by Meghan Rogers

Overview

A spy and action thriller featuring a teenage girl who kicks butt and outsmarts with the best of them. To accomplish her mission, though, she'll need to team up with those she trusts the least in this latest Raven File case.

Jocelyn Steely (code name: Raven) may have escaped the clutches of KATO and won the trust of the IDA, but she isn’t out of danger yet. Her cover is blown and KATO agents are after her, but that won’t stop Jocelyn. After all, her goal was never merely to escape KATO. She wants revenge.

Dead set on rescuing the one girl that she—and the IDA—failed to save, Jocelyn is forced to recruit other KATO agents to her side. She must hand over just enough intelligence to gain their trust, while still preventing her plans from getting back to her former tormentors. Is she out of her league in this battle? Or does she have what it takes to derail KATO once and for all?
 
This high-stakes spy thriller will have readers on the edge of their seats until the final mind-blowing revelation.

Praise for Enemy Exposure:

"Joss' latest mission is filled with well-paced intrigue, making for a suspenseful page-turner."—Kirkus Reviews

"Purchase . . . for collections needing more awesome spy girl stories."—School Library Journal

Praise for Crossing the Line:
 
“Jocelyn makes for a kick-ass, determined heroine, and there’s no shortage of scenes of adrenaline-charged adventure . . . [A] strong debut for both the author and the Raven Files series.”—Publishers Weekly
 
“There’s a plot twist, revealed secret, or chase scene in every chapter—Rogers knows how to keep the pages turning. . . . The cliff-hanger ending begs for a swift sequel.”—Booklist
 
“For fans of TV’s Alias, this is the beginning of an excellent new espionage series.”—School Library Journal

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780698407619
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	03/14/2017
Series:	Raven Files Series , #2
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	732 KB
Age Range:	12 Years

About the Author

Meghan Rogers (www.meghanrogersbooks.com) completed her first novel while she was in high school and has been writing ever since. After college, she earned an MFA in creative writing from Rosemont College. She is the author of Crossing the Line, the first novel in the Raven Files series. Meghan now lives in the Philadelphia area, where she is hard at work on the next Raven Files novel. You can follow her on Twitter @meghanrogers.

Read an Excerpt

We landed about ten miles from the safe house. The house itself was essentially in the middle of a forest, but the last thing we wanted was give the handlers any reason to suspect something out of the ordinary. As anxious as I was on the plane, I found myself snapping into mission mode once we hit the ground. I let the adrenaline push my nerves aside and control my focus. The IDA had sent a two-man advance surveillance team an hour ahead of us to get a couple cars on the ground and eyes on the house. The two agents, Parker and Mills, met us when we landed. 
 
The first thing I noticed was the cold. It threw me off even though I was prepared for it. We were dressed in layers—the last of which was a thermal hooded sweatshirt. Mine was zipped up to my chin.
 
"We didn't learn anything new," Agent Parker said. He looked like he might be a little older than Cody. "We managed to get close enough to put a tap on their security system, so Command has access to it. They're waiting for your word to shut it down." 
 
"Excellent," Cody said. As the most experienced and highest ranking agent, he had point on this mission. Though, he and everyone else deferred to me fairly regularly. 
 
Agent Mills started her car while Parker jumped into the second one. We partnered off. Cody and I took the back seat of Mills's, while Nikki and Rachel took Parker's. We went in opposite directions. The plan was for each team to approach from either side of the house, which would ideally reduce our visibility. 
 
"You guys are clear on the extraction protocol, right?" Mills asked before she dropped us off. 
 
"We're good to go," I said, answering for both of us. Two cars brought us in, but only one was picking us up. Our plan was to gas the house, which would leave everyone unconscious. If things went smoothly, we would be able locate Eliza and leave through the front door before the handlers started to wake. We had a ten minute window to make this happen. 
 
"We'll see you on the other side," Mills said, her ponytail swaying as she turned back to the road. She drove off quickly and quietly. 
 
Once Cody and I settled on the perimeter of KATO's security, Cody pushed his comm in. "Alpha team in position."
 
"Copy." It was Walter. He was running Command for this mission, which was one of the main reasons why I would be doing as little communicating with Command as possible. The two of us hadn't gotten along that great on our last missions. He didn't trust me, which made it difficult for me to trust him. He was supposedly the best tech, which was undoubtedly why he was assigned to a mission like this one.
 
"Beta team in position," Rachel said shortly after us. 
 
"Command, we're waiting for your word," Cody said to Walter.
 
"Stand by," Walter said. The line went quiet for a moment. "Security system is disabled. You're clear to move in." 
 
We'd each been given a dart gun, equipped with darts designed to pierce glass and release a knock-out gas. I felt good holding the gun—if I remembered correctly, my mother had developed something similar. I would bet this weapon was based on her technology. 
 
"On my mark," Cody said. I took aim and waited for his signal before firing off my dart. I had the upstairs, Rachel had the downstairs, and Nikki and Cody had the basement. "All right, we're on the count." We had to wait fifteen seconds for the gas to disperse, do its job, and dissipate. When the time had passed, Cody signaled us in. "We have ten minutes to get in, get the girl, and get out." If we were inside longer than that, the handlers were likely to wake up and catch us. "Let's move."

Editorial Reviews

Praise for Enemy Exposure:

"Joss' latest mission is filled with well-paced intrigue, making for a suspenseful page-turner."—Kirkus Reviews

"Purchase . . . for collections needing more awesome spy girl stories."—School Library Journal
 
Praise for Crossing the Line:
 
“Jocelyn makes for a kick-ass, determined heroine, and there’s no shortage of scenes of adrenaline-charged adventure . . . [A] strong debut for both the author and the Raven Files series.”—Publishers Weekly
 
“There’s a plot twist, revealed secret, or chase scene in every chapter—Rogers knows how to keep the pages turning. . . . The cliff-hanger ending begs for a swift sequel.”—Booklist 
 
“For fans of TV’s Alias, this is the beginning of an excellent new espionage series.”—School Library Journal

From the Publisher

02/01/2017
Gr 7 Up—Jocelyn Steely was kidnapped when she was a little girl and brainwashed into being a spy for KATO, a North Korean organization. She double-crossed them, though, and escaped with the help of her friends in the IDA, an international spy organization. In this second installment in the series, Jocelyn seeks revenge. On a mission with the IDA, she learns of a new mind-control serum that KATO is planning, and she knows that it's up to her to stop its development. In a clever move, she infiltrates a secret base where the serum is kept. This fast-paced title will hold even the shortest attention spans and will appeal to teen fans of The Bourne Identity. The protagonist always outsmarts and defeats her enemies in the KATO agency, and her perfect success record may frustrate some readers; while she struggles, she never makes a mistake. As a result, the novel might become too safe for some readers. Nearly halfway through the book, they will realize that no matter what happens, everything will be OK, much like in their favorite television serials. Still, that knowledge won't dampen the excitement for those seeking nonstop action. VERDICT Purchase where the first volume is popular—and for collections needing more awesome spy girl stories.—Kristin Anderson, Bloomingdale Public Library, IL

School Library Journal

2016-12-14
Teen spy Jocelyn recruits double agents from KATO to gain intelligence, but can she trust them?Jocelyn Steely, now code-named Raven, has a new mission at the International Defense Agency. She and Travis (code name: Scorpion), her former enemy-turned-confidant, must find Eliza Foster, an English girl kidnapped by KATO as leverage against her weapons-expert father. The situation is personal: Joss was taken for similar reasons. She's still haunted by PTSD and a lingering addiction to the drug Gerex. A decoded North Korean message pins the future of KATO's training and control on Eliza, and when Joss extracts the girl from a safe house in Russia, it's clear that different evils were done to her. Eliza wasn't honed into a brutal weapon—she was an experiment. Joss decides that the only way to thwart KATO and learn the nature of what was done to Eliza is to recruit double agents. But not everyone at the IDA trusts making deals with KATO, and Joss risks being caught with the promise of no rescue regardless of new alliances. Joss' latest mission is filled with well-paced intrigue, making for a suspenseful page-turner. However, the much-hyped North Korean agents bend to her will too easily, and attempts to build a relationship with her once-estranged father read as ancillary to the plot. For all that this is a story about North Korean espionage, racial differences are oddly downplayed; Joss, Travis, and Eliza are all evidently white. High-octane espionage that's heavy on thrills but light on character growth. (Thriller. 14-18)

Kirkus Reviews