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The Secret Agent on Flight 101 (The Hardy Boys, No. 46)

5 star:		(7)
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The book I am reviewing is The Secret Agent on Flight 101. It is written by Franklin Dixon, an author from the 1950's. Its part of a series called The Hardy Boys. I think it deserves a five stars. I love it because Frank and Joe's dad disappears and the magician was wanted by the secret organization called SKOOL, but they didn't know. The book is about Frank, Joe, and their pal Chet traveling to Scotland because he has a castle there. They found their dad and captured everybody, but Hexton, the magician. Will they ever capture him? Read the book and find out. I'd recommend this book to people who like mysteries. Other books include The Hardy Boys series. That includes 58 books!

Mr.Hardy is kipnapped by a UGLI agent , the magician Hexton . The kipnapping takes place in Claymore city . The boys meet Del , a SKHOOL agent, then travel on to Scotland . They find a lighthouse where a enemy agent says the sleuth has escaped!

This book is the 46th book in the original Hardy Boys series. This book follows "The Mystery of the Spiral Bridge." The next book in the series is "Mystery of the Whale Tattoo."

The Hardy Boys become involved in spy troubles when they encounter a crooked magician and his henchmen. As with many super criminals, these masterminds are thieves, kidnappers and members of UGLI (Undercover Global League of Informants - yeah, I know, sounds silly, but I did not make this up). To counter UGLI are the good guys, SKOOL (Secret Knowledge of Organized Lawbreakers - obviously this book was written by HICs - Hilarious Initialism Creators).

The premise of the book sounds silly, but the book is a lot of fun. The Hardy boys travel around the United States and to Scotland to capture the crooks and to find their kidnapped father. Along the way the Hardys encounter a castle with secret passages, ruthless spies that try a clever trick to run them off the road, a hot air balloon, a creaky old plane, and many other modes of transportation, including commercial flight 101! The only thing I found annoying in this book was the continuous reference to UGLI, which got old very quickly.

Excluding the corny initials, the pace of the book was fast, the story was entertaining, and there were enough travel to keep me guessing where the story would lead. The book does read much like a low-end James Bond story, and it seems likely that this book was written with the 1960's success of spy movies in mind. All things considered, this story is easily one of the better stories outside of the original ten books.

The publisher recommends the Hardy Boys series for ages 9 to 12 because the series is relatively tame for the previous target audience of ages 10 to 14. This particular book is a very good fit for the new age range. Though the Hardy Boys series contains archaic information, as reading material for an increasingly younger audience they are fine. Once a child has reached age 12 or so the stories may be of less interest, but given the combination of mystery and action, these books remain good safe choices for parents who want to know what their children are reading.

Enjoy!

If you like adventurous and books that make you not put it down, then this is the book for you. It has fighting and this book has some exciting characters. They go on wild plane rides. They've become detectives by their father. They're father is one of the most famous in the U.S.A.I recommend this book to you a lot.

I have read almost all of the Hardy boys books but this one has been my most favourite. Fenton Hardy gets kidnapped and Frank and Joe have to travel all the way to Scottland to save him.

The Secret Agent on Flight 101 is when Mr.Hardy gets kidnapped. It's up to Frank, Joe, and their buddies to find him. I got into this book really fast. The book was phenomenal!

Excellent atmosphere + average writing = 3 stars. Some consider this the worst of the original 58, I disagree. As others have said, there are a few things that aren't very believable, but if you can look past that this is definately worth reading. There is excellent atmosphere, and a geat scene where Frank, Joe & Chet are sneaking into Hexton's castle. 3 Stars.

Most Hardy Boys enthuisiasts will tell you that this was their least favorite book in the series. And that the book is "disjointed" in it's writing. I do not quite agree. This is one of the worst in the series, but certainly not "THE" worst! I find it a book relatively easy to follow with a decent amount of action to it. The ending I found poorly written. There was a fair amount of interaction with the criminals. RATED C-

Mr. Hardy disappears during a magician's performance. Later, Frank and Joe learn that Mr. Hardy was kidnapped by agents of UGLI, an international spy ring, and they team up with agents from SKOOL, a counterespionage ring, to find their father and bring down UGLI. This book is rather interesting; it has a good plot, plenty of action and Frank and Joe are constantly coming into contact with the criminals. I do have a few problems with this book, however. First, I find it very hard to believe that agents from top-secret counterespionage group would work with a couple of high school kids to bring down a group like UGLI; I don't care who their father is or how good Frank and Joe's own success record is, it just wouldn't happen. Second, those names are just too corny; no group, good or bad, is going to call themselves UGLI. Finally, during the book, Frank and Joe find a code message from their father and later figure out that it is the latitude and longitude coordinates of where Mr. Hardy was being taken by his captors. Since I doubt that the criminals would have readily supplied Mr. Hardy with this information, this part of the book is a little hard to believe. If you're willing to accept these things you'll probably enjoy the book very much; if you're not, don't even bother to pick it up.

I am Vignesh Nathan. I did not really like this book because it was confusing . I know it is about a magician named Hexton who used to be a theif but is now a magician and he kidnaps the Hardy boys dad and they go through adventures with thier friend to catch the bad magician.