Section 13

An American boy travels with his family to London for his mother to find his father, but it turns out his father was involved with something nefarious...and now so is he.

From London, through the Austrian Alps, and to central China, Jack, Gwen, and new friend Liu Fai face a clockwork dragon as they try to prevent Gall from finding ancient artifacts said to grant immortality.

Jack Buckles, a thirteenth-generation tracker whose senses are on the fritz, and Gwen Kincaid, a clerk hoping to become an apprentice quartermaster, are framed for stealing a legendary jewel--one of a set of rubies thought to bring the owner loyalty, knowledge, and power--and they must locate the remaining rubies before the thief does or risk his unleashing a reign of terror worse than Genghis Khan's.

"An American boy travels with his family to London for his mother to find his father, but it turns out his father was involved with something nefarious...and now so is he"--Provided by publisher.

Thirteen-year-old Jack Buckles is great at finding things. Not just a missing glove or the other sock, but things normal people have long given up on ever seeing again. If only he could find his father, who has disappeared in London without a trace. But Jack s father was not who he claimed to be. It turns out that he was a member of a secret society of detectives that has served the crown for centuries and membership into the Lost Property Office is Jack s inheritance.