Growing Up Spy “Also Known As” by Robin Benway is a romance novel set in contemporary time. The book is set primarily in New York, but begins in Iceland, where Margaret, or Maggie, and her family are stationed as spies there. Maggie is just sixteen, but she is a spy also. Although her job isn’t as hands on and exciting as her parents, her job is to pick locks. “I cracked my first lock when I was three.” All Maggie does is pick locks, so when this assignment comes, she’s super excited. She gets to do something other than just finish up a job. She gets to put to work her training, but nothing could have prepared her for starting high school. Now she has school work for an advanced school, and had to complete her mission on top of that. Her mission, “Jesse Oliver, son of Armand Oliver, editor in chief of Memorandum magazine. Student, the Harper School.” Maggie and her family work for the Collective. A secret group of spies that all work basically for the greater good. “You’ve never heard of the Collective, but you’ve definitely read about our work. Tobacco executives on trial because of damning evidence? Human smuggling rings being broken up? The fall of the Peruvian dictator? That’s us.” They are on this mission because they have tips …show more content…
He was upset because she didn’t tell him to the whole story and kept him in the dark. The next day at school though, while Maggie is in the library, Jesse plops down a laptop bag, and tells her to hurry. Maggie, Roux, and Jesse then go to Starbucks to sift through Armand’s emails, to find that he didn’t get the story. Nobody had yet. The person with the information was selling it to the highest bidder. After searching a bit more, Maggie finds the information and realizes the only person with that much access to these files had to be from inside the Collective. The first person she thinks of is Oscar