I Q The story so far Quest Q Munoz and Angela Tucker are new stepsiblings Their parents are the two halves of the musical act Match After their parents marry at a ceremony in San Francisco Q and Angela accompany them on their national tour They travel the highways and byways of America in a multimillion dollar coach As Q and Angela get to know each other Q learns Angela’s mother was a highly decorated Secret Service agent Malak Tucker died in the line of duty She was trying to defuse a bomb set by a terrorist group at Independence Hall in Philadelphia It’s Angela’s dream to one day follow in her mother’s footsteps and become an agent Angela learns that Q lived for years on a sailboat with his mother His father was another musician the famous Speed Paulsen His parents had a contentious divorce and Q and his mother have made their own way together for many years
all of Q likes and respects Roger his new stepfather and is happy for his mom Blaze Q has a casual attitude toward school and homework and his first love is magic He wants to be a magician someday and his cargo pants are full of decks of cards colored scarves and magic coins On their first night out of California their coach breaks down in the Nevada desert Q awakens and takes a stroll outside to find an extremely old very wrinkly and mysterious man slumbering by their coach in a sleeping bag He has some camping equipment a stack of James Bond novels and perhaps the world’s oldest and smelliest dog Croc with him He tells Q his name is Tyrone Boone But everybody calls him Boone As it turns out Boone is a roadie A roadie is a jack trades in the music business Usually they work with a group or a performer and do everything from driving the bus and setting up all the equipment for each concert to fixing broken instruments and generally anything else that needs doing Boone has been in the music business for a very long time and Blaze Munoz-Tucker has worked with him before Q and Angela aren’t too sure about Boone For one thing he knows a lot about everything He has incredibly detailed information about the history of every town they pass through He has knowledge about things that most people wouldn’t know And as it turns out Boone is not what he seems The bus is being followed No one knows for certain by whom
or why But Boone seems to know who is following them More importantly he appears to know more about how to get rid of them than a roadie should When they arrive in Philadelphia Angela receives the shock of her life She learns that her mother Malak Tucker is not dead Angela discovers that her mother had an identical twin sister Anmar when they were born in Lebanon Separated from Malak at birth Anmar grew up to become one of the most feared terrorists in the world known as the Leopard Angela learns that years earlier Anmar contacted Malak who was unaware of her existence explaining she’d had a change of heart and no longer wished to be a terrorist She told Malak she was on her way to Independence Hall to defuse a bomb that had been planted there Malak raced there to help her But she arrived too late and Anmar was killed in the explosion Seeing an opportunity to infiltrate a deadly terrorist cell Malak went undercover impersonating Anmar To do so she gave up everything Her husband Roger and her daughter Angela needed to believe she died in the blast Malak made this sacrifice and has spent the past several years working her way up toward the top of the cell’s power structure Boone soon determines that a rogue Israeli Mossad agent Eben Lavi and a team of assassins are the ones tailing them Eben holds Anmar Malak responsible for the death of his brother He believes Angela has some information that may lead him to the Leopard
