Hale, Nick

Jake can't believe he has been scouted for Olympic Advantage. It's a dream come true to train with the top teenage athletes from around the world?these are the kids who will go on to win gold medals! His dad has come along but has promised to stay behind the scenes, as this is Jake's moment. But the sunny Florida camp is hiding a nasty secret. The German weightlifter is crushed by a barbell, painkillers are being issued illegally, and many of the athletes are getting seriously aggressive. Jake knows something is up, and he's in the perfect position to report back to MI6. It's his first mission on his own, and Popov will be watching.

Traveling to sophisticated Milan for an international football tournament, Jake Bastin, who is certain his television commentator father is conducting an MI6 mission, becomes inadvertently enmeshed in a massive diamond heist and retaliatory assassination.

Jake Bastin is the son of a famous soccer coach. When Jake's dad is approached to train a Russian billionaire's elite team in St. Petersburg, things go horribly wrong. A soccer scout, a journalist, and an eco-scientist are all willed within days of each other, and Jake's dad is always at the scene of the crime. Torn between loyalty to his father and the power of the Russian mafia, Jake must use his striker instincts to bring the bad guys down, but what if the bad guy is his own father?.