Katipo Joe: Spycraft
Brian Falkner
Scholastic
Pub. 2021

June 24, 2021

“There were times during the war when I lost myself… I risked becoming the person I was playing, and that person was a Nazi.”

Joseph (Joe) St George is 15 years old. A schoolboy. But unlike most schoolboys, he also happens to be a spy for MI5.

It’s the middle of World War Two and he has just found out he is being sent on a mission. He’s told that his mother, also a spy, has gone missing in Germany and that he has to rescue her.

Joe is parachuted into Germany and makes his way to a rendezvous with an accomplice.  Read more