The children of New York City... 200 tons of gold... MR. WHO has taken them both. But what do they have to do with his MASTER PLAN?

RACHEL RILEY is going to find out! (OK, maybe more like sneak out.) She'll search for Quenton's little brother, discover who her dad is, land a job at the New York Herald, and probably win a Pulitzer Prize for journalism, thank-you-very-much!

Oh, and she has to decode messages from a rhyming cowboy, debrief a ditzy jazz singer, and dodge a caviar-eating, poetry-writing assassin and -WHEW!- maybe, just maybe, her mom will finally let her have a dog, cat, baby elephant... ANYTHING bigger than her teeny-tiny goldfish.

Then there's that pesky little problem of all THE PROFESSIONALS disappearing one by one by one...