Spy High- The Frankenstein Factory
This fast-paced action story set in 2064 by A.J Butcher tells the story of a school for secret agents in training, Deveraux Academy. But the Academy’s students rarely call it by its proper name. They call it Spy High. In the first installment, the six members of Bond Team, Ben Stanton, Lori Angel, Cally Cross, Jake Dally, Jennifer Chen and Eddie Nelligan have petty disagreements. Stanton-always wants the limelight, wants to be the best and will do anything to get to the top. Angel- Not just a pretty Miss Perfect, Bens’ girlfriend. Daly- A boy born under an agricultural dome. Doesn’t have many privileges due to his birth, Ben thinks of him as inferior to him. Nelligan- the class clown, the joker. Never gets good grades. Chen- quiet, has a dark secret connected with her parents murder. Cross- technical genius, grew up on the streets. So tough she would make Schwarzenegger cry for his mother. As this unlikely team is forced to cooperate with each other tempers explode and fights break out between team members. The senior tutor, Elmore Grant, asks them to take a vacation to the woods. But this vacation turns in an action –packed adventure as they uncover a plot by a mad scientist to turn the world’s population into mutants.
My favorite part of the book was the final battle between the mad doctor Frankenstein and Bond Team. Many times it is hard to describe a fight in which futuristic weapons are involved, because we haven’t developed them yet. A. J
Butcher has done a good job of describing so much with so little information.
Overall this is a very good book, and I look forward to reading the 10 other books in the series.
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