Dead on Target
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| Author | Franklin W. Dixon |
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| Cover artist | Morgan Kane |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | The Hardy Boys Casefiles |
| Publisher | Archway Paperback |
| Publication date | April 1987 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 153 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-671-62558-6 |
| Followed by | Evil, Inc. |
Dead on Target is the first book in The Hardy Boys Casefiles series. It was first published in the year 1987.
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[edit] Plot summary
The book starts with Joe Hardy screaming - "Get out of the way, Frank". He is running to the place where an explosion just took place. Their car had a bomb in it and it exploded.
Joe Hardy's girlfriend - Iola Morton, was in the car when the explosion took place, killing her. Joe is unable to believe it. Frank & Joe begin their investigation. They meet a person who calls himself 'Gray Man' from a government agency called 'The Network'. Frank and Joe take his help to get to the person who planted the bomb. Soon they learn that it is not a person - but a group of terrorists who call themselves 'Assassins'.
Joe vows to kill them. As the story progresses, some Assassins are killed in encounters while others escape. They come to know that the person who killed Iola is a member of The Assassins named 'Al-Rousasa'.
When the book is about to end, Frank, Joe, Chet & their other friends begin searching a shopping mall when they learn that the Assassins plan to assassinate a presidential candidate giving a speech in Bayport. Soon, Joe and Frank have a fight with Al-Rousasa at the top floor. Ultimately, during the fight, Al-Rousasa falls from the top floor & dies. Joe remembers what he had been told - "Nobody takes an Assassin alive".
[edit] Appearances
[edit] Characters
- Assistant (mentioned only)
- Debbie
- Hassan
- Jean
- Jerry
- Leila 'Martha'
- Martha
- Rashid
- Selim
- Val
- Al-Rousasa
- Detective Inspector Samuel Butler
- Ezra Collig
- Sir Nigel Folliott
- Fosby
- Arthur E. Gray
- Fenton Hardy
- Frank Hardy
- Gertrude Hardy (mentioned only)
- Joe Hardy
- Laura Hardy (mentioned only)
- Sergeant Morris
- Chet Morton
- Iola Morton
- Edwin Perkins
- Tony Prito
- Con Riley
- Dan Stone
- Callie Shaw
- Philip Walker
[edit] Locations
- Audio-Video Den
- Bayport
- Bayport Mall
- Bayport Police Station
- Builder's Paradise
- Gifte Shoppe
- Hardys’ house
- Hi's Bargain Clothing Store
- Lacey's Department Store
- London, England
- Main Street
- Mr. Pizza
- Shore Road
[edit] Business and organizations
- Assassins
- Bayport Mall Association
- Bayport Police Department
- British Intelligence
- Central Committee
- Network
- World Import-Export
[edit] Important changes in Dead on Target
Casefile #1 Dead on Target was a drastic change from the established Hardy Boys world.
- Iola Morton is killed by a terrorist car bomb in the first volume.
- The books become more grisly. Frank and Joe use firearms and investigate murders.
- Chapters no longer have titles, and there are no illustrations.
- The boys collaborate with the Gray Man, who represents a cloak-and-dagger crimefighting unit. (Similar to SKOOL and UGLI from The Secret Agent on Flight 101...)
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