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Spy High
Episode 1 - The Frankenstein Factory
By AJButcher
What do you get when you combine James Bond and Charlie's Angels with the Famous Five? The answer is Spy High: a secret training school for young intelligence agents set more than 50 years in the future. There might be six heroes in this tale and the real name of the school is actually the Deveraux College for talented teenagers but reality is not the point. This is adventure with a swagger, espionage with attitude. Faced with a crumbling world order, an old agent has set up a rigorous two-year training schedule designed to equip young adults with the skills to fight techno-activists and rogue geneticists. The Bond team consists of Lori, Ben, Jake, Jennifer, Eddie and Cally. They have been chosen because their unit is not quite meeting expectations in the first term. They face possible elimination from the programme for failing the simulation exercise to defeat a master criminal. They have only one more chance. Rival teams press home the point and, as a desperate measure, they are sent blindly out into the world to do their job. They think they are simply going on a camping trip. In reality, they have been dumped in the dangerous wilderness to see if they can help prevent a mad scientist doing a weird and life-threatening impersonation of Frankenstein. If all this sounds unlikely and even risible, then the author's witty dialogue and clever writing save the day. The characters are believable even if the storylines are not, and tight-plotting and a roller-coaster style make this an entertaining read. This is the first of a projected series of six titles. Bad guys beware: the new Bond is saving the world more than a century after the birth of the real thing.
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