Introduction: 1947: The magical world lies in ruins. Grindelwald's forces are scattered. An Iron Curtain descends across Europe.Jack Semmes is fifteen, cocky, and the first American ever admitted to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.He expects bad food and incomprehensible accents. What he finds is a school where ancient stones hide modern secrets, and not everyone is who they claim to be.Darkness stirs beneath Hogwarts' peaceful surface. Grindelwald may be defeated, but his ideology lives on in shadowy corners. As the Muggle Cold War intensifies, magical governments are choosing sides. Durmstrang has gone mysteriously silent. Strange new political movements are gaining influence. Students are disappearing from magical communities across Europe. And someone at Hogwarts is working to destroy the fragile peace between magical Britain and America. But in a castle where the walls spy on students and even the ghosts are taking sides, who can he really trust?Someone is watching his every move. The ice-cold Ravenclaw prefect who seems to hate him on sight? The charismatic student revolutionary preaching magical equality? Or maybe it's the quiet Slytherin who knows too much about everyone's secrets. One of them is bent on turning Europe's oldest magical school into ground zero for a revolution that could tear both wizard and Muggle worlds apart.As Jack races to uncover a plot that threatens both his old home and his new one, he finds themselves thrust into a deadly game of cat and mouse that will take him far beyond Hogwarts' protective walls. Suddenly, house points and school rivalries seem meaningless as he struggles to survive in an occupied continent where ancient hatreds still burn and dark magic haunts every shadow.THE BOY FROM MACUSA hurls readers into a world where spells and surveillance go hand in hand, where ancient family loyalties are crumbling, and where the next betrayal could come from behind any corner鈥攐r any common room door.Don't miss this white-knuckle tale of magic, murder, and international intrigue, where the next war won't be fought with wands alone....