Status Updates From Double Vision (Double Visio...

"'You think I'm a doll you can manipulate,' Bob cried.

'You mean a puppet?' Drake said with a scowl. 'You really need to work on your English.'

But then Bob pushed Drake and tossed the phone down, crushing it under his big black boot with a satisfied look on his face. 'Who is the puppet now, huh?'" (199) Published 2012. Very prescient.

"I heard laughter from the front. The guy who'd grabbed me and Fullerton were probably talking about how they were going to kill me or something. Good times, driving around, plotting the murder of that pesky Benjamin Green" (175-176).

"Agent Fullerton nodded. 'Our government got intel a few years ago that the Chinese and the Russians were using kids in their undercover ops and that they have training camps. So naturally, we have some, too.'

'Naturally.' Undercover kid agents? The world governments had gone nuts" (32). TRUER THAN YOU KNEW IN 2012, KID

"Flashing an expensive-looking gold watch. He introduced himself as Ned Fullerton, head of Fresh Start Incorporated, a company running camps for kids.

'Fresh Start Incorporated?' Mom asked. She was not impressed by Agent Fullerton. 'What does this have to do with Lincoln?'

Dad obviously bought the whole act. 'What kind of camp is it?' he asked" (26). Mom: also great.

"'Who's that at the door?' Grandpa asked. He glanced over my shoulder, out the little window next to the front door. Grandpa is old, but he can sneak up on you like a ninja. Very creepy" (15). I love you already, Grandpa (not sarcastic)

"The bus dropped us at the chicken farm at o'dark thirty" (1). I realize I'm reading an uncorrected proof, but this still made me giggle.

Good so far.