
With the help of more traditional governmental agencies, the agents of V.A.C.U.U.M. As long as the reader does not apply a filter of realism, this is a story that can be enjoyed. This story is good clean adventure fun for the YA market. The story is entertaining, the boys often find themselves engaging in actions without a great deal of pre-planning. Even to the point where they are shooting people and directly engaging the evil organization. The story has the boys engaging in very dangerous actions, going beyond what most teen boy characters in adventure stories do.
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Finally, the actions of the boys are similar to the Hardy Boys series of detective stories. Showing his lack of concern for convention, The Professor simply tells Ossipon to attach himself to the widow, presumably for the money. Given the evil organization that is well funded with a top-notch base of operations, there are many similarities to the James Bond series. Orv is a genius inventor and is capable of flying a plane, so the story has some elements of the Tom Swift boy inventor series.

Their associate Mary is made an honorary member of their organization and she practices martial arts and knows all of the important exclamations. You also need four assignment cards, indistinguishable from the back, marked respectively Left, Opposite, Right, Self. Mongoose is a governmental anti-espionage agency and there is an evil organization called Cobra that is operating in Florida, where the boys live. Together they form Volunteer Agents Crusading Unsteadily Under Mongoose or V. But their real scheme is to taint the water supply instead.Orv, Bo, Horseshoes and Ken are a group of boys in their middle teens that are interested in adventure.


Sobol also penned the non-fiction book True Sea Adventures, published in 1975.
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None of the four boys go by the full form of their first name: Bo is short for Booker, Ken is short for Kenneth, and Orv is short for Orville. Fourteen contestants undergo the same rigorous four-day selection process as Englands top-secret World War II spies in a reality series steeped in history. The Secret Agents 4' (Ultimate Training Short) 2 Reviews 79.50 Inseam 4' 5.5' Color: Size: Size Guide Available 5 S M L XL XXL Reintroducing: The Ultimate Training Short Reimagined with updated fit and features plus added pocket space Select a Size 79. Sobol wrote the children's novel Secret Agents Four, in which a group of Miami teenagers attempt to thwart foreign saboteurs.His "real" name is Jerry, which in turn is a nickname for Jeremiah. Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: The book starts out with the boys tipping off a Cobra agent.Their on the very edge of success until Orv realties: They were Tricked into Escaping. The organization they're fighting is called Cobra. The spy organization that Ken's dad belongs to is called Mongoose. We meet Ken Mullins and his three buddies Orv, Horseshoes and Bo, who unexpectedly find themselves forming a detective squad-V.A.C.U.U.M.(Volunteer Agents Crusading Unsteadily Under Mongoose).

Island Base: Cobra's headquarters on Mystery Island.
