Thirteen-year-old Jonah has always known that he was adopted, and he's never thought it was any big deal. Then he and his new friend, Chip, who's also adopted, began receiving mysterious letters. The first one says, "You are one of the missing." The second one says, "Beware! They're coming back to get you."

Jonah, Chip, and Jonah's sister Katherine, are plunged into a mystery that involves the FBI, a vast smuggling operation, an airplane that appeared out of nowhere -- and people who seem to appear and disappear at will. the kids discover that they are caught in a battle between two opposing forces that want very different things for Jonah and Chip's lives.

This is book 1 in "The Missing" series, a new series by Margaret Peterson Haddix.