Alexa Mccurry: The Marino Mission

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Have you ever went somewhere and did something you didn't think you'd do? In the novel The Marino Mission, we meet Alexa McCurry, who is introduced as the main character. Alexa’s mission is mysterious. The mission exudes secrecy by nobody knowing, connections with the military, and Pecas’s baby missing. Her mission is clandestine because Alexa and her friend, Jose are the only ones that knows about it.
To begin, nobody knows about this clandestine mission, expect Alexa and José. They work together to find out if the military had taken Pecas’s baby. She didn’t communicate with her mother telling her about this mission, nor tell her she was working for and with, the military. “It was hard to imagine her mother doing anything that could possibly

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