A fantastic kids spy adventure set in a secret agent training school

• Similar to the Alex Rider series
• Irish-based but with a host of international characters and settings
• Author of the Penny the Pencil series for younger readers

Fourteen-year-old Jess Leclair is an exceptional teenager: athletically gifted and academically brilliant. Bored at her conventional Dublin school, she is thrilled to be offered a place at PEP Academy, the training ground for the top secret PEP (Planet Earth Protection) Squad. During her first term Jess quickly makes friends with her room-mate, extreme-sport loving Emily Harris, and the Sykes twins, Ben and Matt. Together they start to learn the skills they will need to become world-class spies, like lock-picking, making disguises, abseiling, foreign languages and combat training. At the end of their first year the teenagers are promised an easy first mission. But then they find out they have to infiltrate a Bavarian castle and steal a sample of a deadly virus that could wipe out all of humanity. Faced with armed guards, a complex security system, an evil genius and a traitor in their midst the trainee spies must save the day or die trying. This is set to be the next big thing in adventure fiction for pre-teens!

 

There are 320 pages in this book. This book was published 2014 by The Mercier Press Ltd .

Eileen O'Hely was born in Australia to Irish parents. She is the author of the successful Penny the Pencil series for 5-8 year olds. This is her first book for older children. She currently lives in Sydney.