Twelve-year-old Archie Hunt is a fairly unassuming kind of boy - until the day he is recruited into S.T.I.N.K.B.O.M.B., MI6's fledgling branch of child agents.
Their mission? To track down the evasive Doctor Doom, whose sinister experiments to create the ultimate super-being must be stopped. (Seriously. Austin Powers' Doctor Evil has nothing on this guy.)
Luckily Archie has been given a few piloting lessons by his fighter-jet-designer father . . . and soon S.T.I.N.K.B.O.M.B. are whizzing around Europe on the search for Doom's lair. They meet friend and foe along the way - including the poor mutants who are the products of Doom's failed experiments. Like Finn: half-man, half-goldfish. He WANTS to lead the team to the hideout, but his three-second memory means that consistency isn't his strong point . . .
Riffing excellently on the Bond films, Rob Stevens combines high adventure with pure slapstick comedy in the first book of this hilarious new series.
| Territory | Publisher/Agent |
|---|---|
| World | Darley Anderson Agency (Madeleine Buston) |
| UK & Commonwealth | Macmillan |
Hugo is off on a new expedition – to the unchartered mountains of deepest Transylvania where nothing is as it seems…
In a bid to rescue his uncle’s friend and locate the vicious Vampanther’s castle, the young mapmaker is joined by a host of incredible creatures – a fortune-telling cat, a very anxious wolfman and even an abominable orangufang. Can Hugo rescue Uncle Walter from the clutches of the evil vampanther lord before it's too late?
This is a hilarious adventure about making maps, making friends and making some very quick escapes.
| Territory | Publisher/Agent |
|---|---|
| World | Darley Anderson Agency (Madeleine Buston) |
| UK & Commonwealth | Macmillan |
| Brazil (Portuguese) | Bertrand Brasil |
| German | Boje Verlag |
| Portugal | Livraria Civilazacao |
| Spain | Random House Mondadori |
When Christopher Columbus-wannabe Rupert Lilywhite decides to set sail and discover a new land - it's all the rage in the fifteenth century - Walter Bailey and his twelve-year-old nephew Hugo are employed as the ship's mapmakers. And when the sailors do eventually spot a mystery island, it is Walter and Hugo who are dispatched to investigate (nobody else can be bothered).
Arriving on a beach of purple sand, the intrepid pair believe that they have found paradise . . . until Walter is picked off by a giant flying rat. But with the help of some weird and wonderful talking creatures, including Pigasus the flutterhog, Delphina the water-breathing merphin and Savage, the tiny but fearless mouse, Hugo is given a chance to save his uncle and put his mapmaking training to the test.
| Territory | Publisher/Agent |
|---|---|
| World | Darley Anderson Agency (Madeleine Buston) |
| UK & Commonwealth | Macmillan |
| Brazil (Portuguese) | Bertrand Brasil |
| German | Boje Verlag |
| Italian | Edizioni Piemme |
| Poland | Stentor |
| Portugal | Livraria Civilazacao |
| Romania | SC Corint Junior |
| Spain | Random House Mondadori |
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