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Summary

A Mission-Impossible styled series with a supernatural twist about a high school basketball star who gets in trouble and is given the choice between military school and joining a Christian spy organization.  

Stats

Genre: Teen (13-16 years) contemporary suspense

Series length: Four novels and two novellas

Violence: Moderate to moderately high violence, ranging from fistfights to kidnapping and lightly described torture

Magic/Supernatural: Light to moderate supernatural, including prophetic visions and demonic influence

Romance/Sexuality: Moderate, including everything from a boy crushing on a girl to references to prostitution (nothing graphically portrayed)   

Christian/spiritual element: Overt Christian elements woven throughout the books

Recommendation: Excellent for boys or girls who like adventure and suspense. 

You might like this book if you liked... 
Mission: Impossible or Spy Kids

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Opening Lines:

What can I say? I'm a moron.

I knew better than to play ball in King Coat's territory. Maybe I was looking for a fight, wanting to blow off steam after my "talk" with Principal McKaffey.

But there we were, me and three guys from public school, playing two on two on the court in Alameda Park. It was around 2:20. The elementary schools hadn't let out yet. Then C-Rok and his wannabe gangsters showed up and asked to join in.

The New Recruit (The Mission League, Book 1)
by Jill Williamson

Forced to choose between military school and a Christian spy organization, skeptic Spencer Garmond signs on with the Bible geeks. But before he even boards the plane for Moscow, Spencer realizes this is no Bible club.

These guys mean business.

Stumbling onto a case involving a gang of homeless boys, a chilling tattoo, and the always beautiful Anya Vseveloda, Spencer struggles to find the faith needed to save the Mission League from enemy infiltration.

The New Recruit is the first book in a thrilling new spy adventure series designed for reluctant tween and teen audiences.

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The visions were happening more frequently, but that didn't mean I was used to them--especially when they popped up in the middle of the day.

The headache came first, then the vision. The scene surged into my mind, leaving we winded and tense, the way standing too close to the freeway did when a big rig drove by. 

Chokepoint (The Mission League, Novella 1.5)
by Jill Williamson

Ever since I returned from Moscow, life is a full court press. Mission League field agents are everywhere. All the time. Watching. Waiting for me to fulfill a sixty-year-old prophecy. When some baddies try to guy-nap me, the field agents threaten to move me and Grandma Alice to some random hick town, to give us new fake identities until the prophecy is fulfilled. Not going to happen. I've got one chance to stay in Pilot Point. I have to prove to the agents that I can stay safe. Have to make this work. For basketball. For Kip. For Beth. So, bring it, baddies. It's game on.

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I'd always loved the rush that came from being where I wasn't supposed to be. 

Grandma's bedroom smelled like lilac powder, Vicks VapoRub, and dust. I stood on the braided rug that took up what little open floor space was left, what with the double bed, two dressers, a file cabinet, and piles of fabric that lined every inch of the baseboard. The walls were painted dirty pink. Mauve, Grandma called it. She had white curtains with pink and red roses on them. I felt weird standing in there. I couldn't remember the last time I'd even crossed the threshold.

Project Gemini (The Mission League, Book 2)
by Jill Williamson

After an exhausting school year, Spencer is thrilled to discover that the summer training mission will take him and his fellow agents-in-training to Okinawa, a tropical paradise. But there's little time for R & R as Spencer must attend school, volunteer at a local martial arts training facility, and track and report a mysterious girl named Keiko. Spencer thinks he knows exactly what to do, but the more he discovers about Keiko, the more questions he has. All he really wants to do is protect Keiko from her ex-boyfriend and stay out of trouble, but where Spencer Garmond is concerned, trouble is never far away.

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I yawned and looked at Grace's empty desk for the sixteenth time that morning, then read the next question on the Outdoor Survival Training final exam: 

16. In the Mission League, S.E.R.E. stands for
a. Survive, Evade, Resist, Extract
b. Survive, Evade, Resist, Escape
c. Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape
​d. Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Evasion

Ambushed (The Mission League, Novella 2.5)
by Jill Williamson

All Spencer wants in life is an NCAA scholarship to play D1 college basketball. He visits universities when he can and works hard at his goal of taking his team to the state basketball championship. When disaster strikes, Spencer's desperation sends him to the one person he was determined to ignore: his father.

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My Macbook screen froze. Buffering. Again. The second Light Goddess movie had stopped on a close-up of one of Brittany's cohorts: a gorgeous, dark-skinned Indian girl, who had just been pricked with the "juice" and now had grid marks on her arm. The girl's eyes were closed, her face frozen in a mixed expression of pain and pleasure.

My head spun and I saw the girl in my mind in a completely different place and time. 

Broken Trust (The Mission League, Book 3)
by Jill Williamson

In the midst of training for the outdoor survival trip to Alaska, Spencer is distracted by a mysterious young woman—Nick's new girlfriend. He's not just wondering how someone that gorgeous would waste her time on a jerk like Nick, he recognizes this girl from her bit part in one of the cultish Jolt movies he's been investigating. She's up to something, and Spencer is determined to find out what. As he gets closer to the truth, it becomes harder to know who to trust. Things are getting dangerous. Can Spencer figure out what's going on, or will this mystery leave him M.I.A?

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On my knees at my locker, I stared at my iPhone. I'd pulled up my profile on the ESPN National Basketball webpage. Nothing new. I was still ranked a three. And it still said U of Arizona had offered me, even thought they'd pulled the offer after my arrest last spring and given my spot to someone else before I had a chance to prove my innocence. 

I suppose the profile looked better this way. I just hoped the offer wouldn't keep other schools from making contact. Because I was back. Fully. Mario, my physical therapist, had signed off on my knee. I could run again. And I was finally able to play ball with my team.​

The Profile Match (The Mission League, Book 4)
by Jill Williamson

When Spencer Garmond’s friend is kidnapped, the young Mission League agent-in-training decides he’s had enough. Determined to stop the criminals he suspects are responsible, he petitions the Los Angeles Field Office to give him the lead on the case. Now he’s investigating his favorite actress, the movie director who pretended to be his dad, and even his own uncle. Weird much?

As he struggles to find the connections between this unlikely group of suspects, he uncovers a clue that could create a worldwide scandal. When the Field Office steps in, Spencer realizes he’s not really in control of the investigation at all. Can Spencer trust God to bring about justice, or will his need to be in control jeopardize the very people he's trying so hard to protect?

​Don’t miss this final installment in the award-winning Mission League series by author Jill Williamson.