Agent Z
4 total works
The second Agent Z novel. Saved from the horrendous fate of two weeks with Mum, Dad and mad Aunt Gwen, Ben and the Z gang are going to the Plas-y-Cyfoglyn Outward Bound Centre. As well as abseiling, rock-climbing and orienteering, the three of them are involved in further hilarious adventures.
This is the third in the Agent Z series. Ben's family are pretty odd, but they're not a patch on the Sidebottoms who have just moved in next door. Ben, Barney and Jenks reckon that the Sidebottoms need taking down a peg or two.
Ben's repulsive cousin, T.J., comes to stay. He discovers an incriminating videotape of Agent Z activities and blackmails Ben into becoming his slave.Meanwhile, Ben, Jenks and Barney embark on their first film, entitled Invasion of the Killer Bananas, in which T.J. unwittingly has a starring role. When T.J. disappears, however, the film points towards Ben, Jenks and Barney as murder suspects!In an attempt to clear their names, the boys use all the cunning of Agent Z to try and lure T.J. home and into the hands of the police . . .Mark Haddon has a sharp understanding of what makes children tick, and they will delight in the ever more daring, ever more hilarious missions of Agent Z and his three creators.
Ben's a born daydreamer. He's much rather be in the Sahara, or on a Viking ship than sitting in a boring maths lesson. Then Agent Z appears on the scene - and THAT means secret missions, cunning plans and careful strategies. And soon Ben and his friends, Barney and Jenks, realize that life on planet earth is RATHER exciting after all!