When twelve-year-old Duncan Matter is sent to stay with his two uncles, whom he's never met before, he is immediately faced with secrets and danger. First, he visits his Uncle Ulysses, who barely talks, is always studying something, and wears a strange necklace with a number nine on it. Things couldn't get much weirder...at least until a mysterious, masked man, who has the same necklace, visits in the middle of the night and gives Ulysses a letter. Suddenly, Duncan is in grave danger. Someone wants him and will do anything to get him...but who? When he is sent to stay with his other uncle, Logan, he discovers that he is quite different from his Uncle Ulysses. One thing leads to another, and Duncan finds himself in a trap, faced with the question of who is a friend...and who is a foe?
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