This second installment in the international, action-packed Crime Travelers Spy School series from Amazon best-selling and award-winning author Paul Aertker is a mind-opening adventure for elementary and middle-grade fans of Gordon Korman, James Patterson, and Stuart Gibbs. 

Listeners (and parents and teachers) will appreciate the step up in smart material. This humorous and exciting middle school series with its short chapters is perfect for school reading lists. If your children love excitement, don't miss this action-packed series!

When a rogue group of modern-day pirates pushes everything important to the edge of life, Lucas Benes becomes a boy on a mission.

After sabotaging a mass kidnapping in Paris, Lucas Benes faces a new and perilous threat from Siba Günerro and her anything-but-good Good Company. When a briefcase-toting kid from the Falkland Islands joins the New Resistance Spy School, 14-year-old Lucas learns the truth about his mother and becomes a boy on a mission. Lucas and friends speed in and around Rome - from the Colosseum to the Vatican - until they stowaway on a cargo ship carrying diamonds that could unlock the secret to Lucas's past and destroy the Good Company's future. 

In this action-packed second installment of the Crime Travelers mystery series, author Paul Aertker takes listeners on a gripping world tour filled with adrenaline, humor, and pure excitement.

Diamonds Are for Never is the second book in this best-selling Crime Travelers collection. The first book in the series, Brainwashed (number one Amazon Best Selling Children's Travel Books), tracks the secret urban adventures of the New Resistance, a network of international teenage spies. This humorous and exciting middle school series with short chapters is perfect for school listening lists, summer listening, or holiday gifts.

Parents, teachers, and librarians will appreciate the worldwide geography and appropriate language for ages 9-14.