The Ministry of SUITs

Written by Paul Gamble

Part of the The Ministry of SUITs series

Kids vanish, pirates lurk, and a bear runs wild. Can two young recruits solve the mystery before bedtime?

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400 pages· 80,433 words· Est. 9 hour read

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Bookroo's summary

In Belfast, oddball kids are disappearing, pirates are rumored, and a bear is on the loose. Jack Pearse, a logical thinker, and Trudy Emerson, a daring schoolgirl, are tasked with unraveling this bizarre mystery. Armed with Ministry gadgets and a bedtime curfew, they must navigate a world stranger than they imagined. Can they uncover the truth and stop the chaos before it's too late? And who—or what—are they really up against? Join this hilarious and thrilling adventure where nothing is as it seems.

From the publisher

Memo: For Ministry of Strange, Unusual, and Impossible Things Operatives Only

A series of strange incidents have been reported in Belfast:

Oddball kids are going missing

There are several unconfirmed signs of pirates.

A wild bear known to be a very sore loser at musical statues has escaped from the museum and is on the rampage.

Fortunately, our newest recruits, Jack Pearse, a curious boy skilled at logical thinking and seeing what’s actually there, and Trudy Emerson, the most dangerous girl in his school, are on the case. As per Ministry policy, they are currently being trained in the use of The Speed (patent pending) and will have full access to Ministry supplies (assuming they manage to navigate the paperwork without going insane), so we are confident that they will succeed in their mission to discover and foil this villainous plot. Please provide all assistance possible, as A) they don’t know who they are actually up against, B) the world is much stranger than they realized, and C) they are only 12 and have to be in bed by 10 p.m.

P.S.—Could all Ministry operatives who have borrowed dinosaurs in the past two weeks please return them? We’re running low on inventory.

A thrilling and hilarious middle grade story, The Ministry of SUITs by Paul Gamble gives its readers a silly, but oddly thoughtful adventure they surely won’t forget. But the wackiness doesn’t end here at all—it all continues in the sequel, The Monster’s Daughter.

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