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If I could interview Zach Harriman's best friend, Kate, I would ask her how she keeps calm in times of pressure like when she was about to get robbed by the guy on the track at midnight. She stayed silent, and had the feeling that Zach could come and save her. She was right, and Zach used his powers to knock the guy out. Kate would probably reply that if you stay calm, everything will turn out okay in the end.

If this story was narrated by Spencer, Zach's enemy, it would be different in certain scenes. When spencer threw Zach into his locker at school, it would've put a different image in the reader's mind. Zach said that he didn't provoke it at all, but I'm sure that Spencer has a different idea of what went down. He probably would've said that Zach said something, leading him to shove Zach.

It was really shady and allowed me to think about who the old guy with the grey beard really was, and how he knew Zach and Zach's father.

The best part of the book so far was the scene with the old guy who knows Zach, but Zach doesn't know who he is. The time they met was when Zach went to check out his dad's crash sight on Long Island. The old guy was waiting there for him. As Zach approached him, the guy told him stories about Zach when he was a baby. He also said he knew how Zach's father had died. This intrigued Zach, and I liked this part because

So far in this book, Zach Harriman lives with his Mom Dad who is a top spy for the nation, and his best friend in an apartment in New York City. Zach had just found out that his dad was on a plane that had one of the world's top criminals on it, and in trying to kill him, the plane crashed and Zach's father had died. He wants answers, and will most likely be determined to get them.

Zach Harriman is very curious, brave, and sensitive. He is curious because he keeps trying to find out exactly how his dad died. He is brave because when a criminal tried to mug him and his friend Kate, Zach tried to stop the bad guy. He beat up the adult, even though Zach is only fourteen. Lastly, he is sensitive because when the school bully, Spence Warren, started teasing Zach, he got mad easily and threw punches.

The thing that I reacted with the most in this book would be when Tom Harriman, Zach's dad, dies. In the chapter before, the author told me that Tom was the best in the business, and to that he had done this mission a million times. I felt so confused and skeptical that Mr. Harriman didn't actually die, that I read the next chapter and looked for clues to tell me that he was still alive.

So far in this book, it is abou out a character, Zach Harriman, whose dad dies mysteriously while flying a plane. The problem is that his dad worked for the president in a fighting way, but didn't tell his son that. Zach knows that his was keeping a secret, and is determined to find out what it was.