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Episode 1: The Frankenstein Factory by A.J. Butcher check out website: www.AtomBooks.co.uk and www.TimesWarnerBooks.co.uk and www.thedeverauxcollege.com
This book is part one of a series of 6 to be released over the next few months. With the plethora of spy stories for young adult reader and film-goers it is hard to see which one will stand out sufficiently. Some of you may be familiar with the 'Alex Rider' stories by Anthony Horowitz, a man with satisfactory writing credits under his belt. A.J. Butcher has written these books with a teenage audience in mind. They should appeal to boys and girls. There are hints of romance, lots of gadgetry to keep the boys interested and a nicely paced plot. With potentially intriguing character traits in the characters that promise some revealing moments in later novels the book sets up the series well.
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Episode 2: The Chaos Connection by A.J. Butcher
We learn more about the Domes that Jake was brought up in and
the team are forced to battle a new and potentially lethal enemy-Chaos brings
forth...Nemesis. It is a testing time for Bond team who must pull together
or fall apart and potentially take the world with them. These books
are a great read for the pre-teens. Possibly a series of films, too... Sue
Davies
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OTHER REVIEWS - October 2003
More reviews: October 2003 Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson The Dark Path by Walter H. Hunt A Place So Foreign And Eight More by Cory Doctorow The Fifth Sorceress by Robert Newcomb The Gates Of Dawn by Robert Newcomb Stories Of Your Life And Others by Ted Chiang Beyond The Hanging Wall by Sarah Douglass Kingdom River by Mitchell Smith The Year's Best Science Fiction (20th Annual Collection) edited by Gardner Dozois SpyHigh Episode 1: The Frankenstein Factory by A.J. Butcher SpyHigh Episode 2: The Chaos Connection by A.J. Butcher Doctor Illuminatus by Martin Booth Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett Angel: Stranger To The Sun by Jeff Mariotte The Xenocide Mission by Ben Jeapes The Poison Master by Liz Williams The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon Shadowheart (Legends Of The Raven) by James Barclay [Spooks] Confidential: The Official Handbook by Jim Sangster
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Six
young people are selected to join an elite private school. Each
one comes from a strikingly different background. Together they
will form the Bond team who will pass or fail Spy High together.
The time is the near future. It is almost but not quite like the
present.
Bond
team are not doing well. If they fail the next test they will all be thrown out.
Sent out to camp in the forest as a team building exercise they discover there
is something rather nasty lurking outside the tents. It isn't human but it used
to be. Someone is performing pretty gruesome experiments with human DNA and he's
like to use the Bond team for the next round.
The
second episode follows on from 'The Frankenstein Experiment' above and the time
frame is shortly afterwards. There are cracks in the team when Ben demands too
much of Lori. Her loyalties divided she makes a disastrous attempt to help out
the Bond team but makes things worse when an apparent truce with Solo Team proves
costly.
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