The Revelation

This book becomes more interesting and intriguing by the chapter. I thoroughly enjoyed it and can't wait for the next installment! My daughter is the reviewer here!

This is the best book I ever read and is amazing, and I thruly recomend this book to all action fans and kids.

Fifteen-year-old twins, Tom and Mitch Hearn live a cushy lifestyle in New York's Upper East Side that many people only dream about. Housed atop a palatial, three-story brownstone, the boys have never wanted for anything in their lives. But when their father fails to return from an unexpected business trip, and makes no contact with the boys or their live-in caretaker and butler, Mr. Chance, "the Chance Man," for over a week, they become worried, and start to believe that their beloved father could, quite possibly, be in grave danger. While this may be true, the boys are unsure of what to do to locate their father, and bring him safely home. After all, while Mitch may be a science and computer whiz, and Tom has all the appropriate skills to kung-fu his way to victory, the two are still mere teenagers who love skateboarding and video games as much as the next teen, and have no clue what they're up against. When they encounter a black-clad ninja underground in the subway station, however, they begin to suspect trouble. Accosted by the thug in the late afternoon, the two barely escape with their lives, and return home to find that their father, along with Mr. Chance, have been keeping secrets from the both of them for almost an entire decade. With this new turn of events, however, those secrets have been let loose, revealing a hidden secret that would make anyone's head spin. According to Mr. Chance, both he and the boys father are members of R.O.N.I.N., a rogue crime-fighting organization with a history that dates all the way back to feudal Japan. With this new information, the boys begin to realize why Mr. Chance is so concerned about their father's whereabouts, and come to the conclusion that their father is in severe danger. But that's not all. Now that Mitch and Tom have discovered the secret of R.O.N.I.N., they have each been recruited to join the organization, and fight crime and evil side-by-side with Mr. Chance, their father, and a wide array of other organization members. While the boys are only too happy to comply with the request, and experience a little danger and adventure; they can't help but feel that, since they've been lied to for so many years, it's up to them to learn a little more about R.O.N.I.N. on their own. Using Mitch's science smarts, the two find themselves mixed-up with Laura Ting, a girl with kung-fu skills that far surpass those of Tom, who managed to snag first place at the Citywide Science Fair last year, leaving Mitch's project in the dust. Laura's family is in danger, being attacked by a criminal mastermind known as Roman Maldeen. Roman Maldeen is determined to steal the invention that could change the computer world from Laura's father, and is delivering various threats to the Ting family. Taking Laura under their wing, Tom and Mitch realize that the leisurely hours they spent reading comic books are now a thing of the past, and that if they want to see their father again, they'll have to spend every waking moment