Teen Superheroes
Book One – Diary of a Teenage Superhero
Paperback 978-1-923360-44-0
Ebook 978-1-923360-17-4
Age group: 10-14
Teenagers with superpowers. A secret organization. Aliens on Earth. A weapon designed to destroy a city.
Axel wakes up in a seedy hotel room with no memory of his past. A man lies dying on the floor next to him. Someone starts pounding at the door. Axel runs. While staying one step ahead of his pursuers, Axel begins to assemble the pieces of his life. He is the victim of an amazing experiment – he has been given incredible powers – and he is not alone.
An organization known only as The Agency has modified other teenagers too. Brodie is a master of martial arts. Ebony can transmute one substance into another. Dan controls metals with his mind. Chad creates fire and ice from nothing.
They have been handed incredible powers to help the human race in times of crisis – and one of those times is now.
A terrorist organization intends to fire a nuclear weapon at an American city. Only this bunch of untried, untested teenage superheroes stands any chance of stopping it.
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Book Two – The Doomsday Device
Paperback 978-1-923360-45-7
Ebook 978-1-923360-19-8
Age group: 10-14
A deadly virus. The return of an enemy. The most dangerous prison on Earth.
Life is never boring when you’re a superhero. Axel and the team get more than they bargained for when they settle into their new home outside Las Vegas. A surprise attack results in Brodie, Ebony, Dan and Ferdy being taken hostage and held in a secret location by cult leader, Jeremiah Stead.
Stead wants their help in opening an encrypted device called Barricade. If they refuse, it’ll cost them their lives, but agreeing to Stead’s demands will mean handing over control of a deadly virus that could kill billions of people…
Axel and Chad can find Stead, but it means they have to break his brother out of prison. And it’s not just any prison. It’s the world’s most dangerous jail—Yodak prison in North Korea, a place filled with modified humans who have deadly powers.
Getting in is easy. Survival is hard. Escape is impossible!
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Book Three – The Battle for Earth
Paperback 978-1-923360-46-4
Ebook 978-1-923360-20-4
Age group: 10-14
A kidnapped girlfriend. A magical sorceress. A planet under attack. A world that faces two threats.
The Tagaar are an ancient race of warrior aliens. They’re determined to make our planet their own—and they intend to use our teenage superheroes to help them do it. Kidnapping Brodie, the Tagaar promise her safe return—if Axel steals the deadly Stonekiller weapon. It’s a weapon that can turn a person to a block of stone—but they do not die. Instead, they are condemned to exist as a living statue forever.
And the person they want Axel to use it on is the Russian President…
If things aren’t bad enough, the ancient sorceress, Morgan le Fay has made a reappearance. She’s centuries old and is one of the most powerful humans to have ever lived. She has the ability to take away anyone’s free will. Whilst under her spell, a person can be forced to do anything she commands.
And she doesn’t care who she hurts…
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Book Four – The Twisted Future
Paperback 978-1-923360-47-1
Ebook 978-1-923360-21-1
Age group: 10-14
Time traveling into the future. A devastated Earth. Loyalties stretched to breaking point.
Eager for some rest and relaxation, the team seek refuge on a remote Pacific Island. But all does not go according to plan. A visitor appears from the future with a time-bending mission. They must kill a man by the name of James Price.
If they don’t, the world is doomed.
Their refusal sends them forward forty years in time where they see the repercussions of letting James Price live. The Earth has been devastated and mankind is on the brink of extinction. They need to survive this terrible new world and return to the past. But is it right to kill an innocent man? Even when they know what his future will produce?
And if changing history isn’t difficult enough, it’s what Axel and Brodie learn about themselves that will change their current relationship forever…
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Book Five – Terminal Fear
Paperback 978-1-923360-48-8
Ebook 978-1-923360-22-8
Age group: 10-14
A family reunited. The return of an enemy. Fear without end.
Axel’s life is turned upside down when he is sent a message from the New Haven refugee camp. The aliens there have information about his past.
This takes him on a whole new journey. He leaves Liber8tor to start a fresh life. Everything is perfect. He now has family and a place to call home. He even has a girlfriend, a girl named Quinn who bears an uncanny resemblance to Brodie. For the first time ever, Axel knows his true identity and what the future holds. Or does he?
Inspired by Axel’s move, Brodie and the others find a town where they can settle down. All is perfect—at first—but then strange events make them question their new home. What are the strange faces at the windows? Is the town haunted? Are they losing their minds? Or does a far greater mystery lie beneath the surface? All is not as it seems. They must discover the truth or they will all face unimaginable terrors—for the rest of their lives!
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Book Six – The Invisible Weapon
Paperback 978-1-923360-49-5
Ebook 978-1-923360-23-5
Age group: 10-14
An alien invasion. A desperate plan. A journey into deep space.
The Earth is doomed…
The Tagaar empire are on the verge of invading Earth and nothing can stop them. Well, almost nothing…
Axel and the others have settled into their new life at Asgard base when Mister Okada gives them the news they’ve been dreading: the Tagaar are on their way to invade the Earth. They intend to strip it of its resources before destroying the planet. Mister Okada does have a plan, but it is not without risks.
Our team of superheroes must travel into space, and to the heart of Tagaar territory. Here, if they can make three ancient Tagaar prophecies come true, the Tagaar will lay down their arms forever. The odds are against our heroes, and it’s not long before Axel, Brodie and the others are separated and lost in deep space.
With time running out, they must achieve their goal, or all will be completely lost.
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Book Seven – The Alpha Project
Paperback 978-1-923360-50-1
Ebook 978-1-923360-24-2
Age group: 10-14
A mysterious death. Traveling through time. Unrivalled power. The return of an ancient enemy.
Our team of teenage superheroes have always sought the answers to their origins. What are their real names? Who are their parents? Why were they chosen to be superheroes?
But sometimes searching for answers leads to more questions. When The Agency are called in to investigate the murder of a teenager, our teen superheroes are soon drawn into the mystery. It immediately promises to propel them into the greatest adventure of their lives. Who is the mysterious teenager who ended up dead and why was he killed?
And—strangest of all—why does he look so much like Axel? Before they can unravel the truth, however, they must make use of a technology that once before threatened to destroy them.
Time travel is in the mix. It may bring about a new beginning—or all too easily spell out the end of everything.
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Teen Superhero Bounty Hunters
Book One – Snakebite
Paperback 978-1-923360-51-8
Ebook 978-1-923360-25-9
Age group: 10-14
A girl on the run. A kidnapped scientist. A superpowered future.
Someone wants Sally Tyler dead!
After the brutal murder of her parents, Sally Tyler is left homeless and on the run. Then she is offered the chance of a lifetime—join a bounty hunting organization called NEST and become a superhero. She’ll work with the other members of NEST—Lara, Tyrone, Brock and Nigel—to catch the bad guys the police can’t catch. Lara has the ability to move things with her mind. Tyrone can cling to any surface. Nigel has the brain of a genius. And Brock—
Well, Brock has an ability he’d rather keep secret.
Joining NEST will allow Sally to discover who murdered her parents. It sounds like the perfect deal. Except being a superhero doesn’t make Sally safer. Now, it seems, more people than ever want her dead…
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Book Two – Fear Fight
Paperback 978-1-923360-52-5
Ebook 978-1-923360-26-6
Age group: 10-14
A modern day Bonnie and Clyde. A demon child. A missing friend.
Sally has a secret—she’s having problems with her superpowers. Big problems. Sometimes her brain hurts so much she feels like her head will explode. To make matters worse, she can’t tell anyone because their mysterious leader, Krait, might take her powers away completely.
But now it seems that her problems have only just started. First, she and the other members of NEST have got to capture a pair of deadly bank robbers. This modern day Bonnie and Clyde can turn your whole world upside down. And these criminals aren’t alone. They’ve brought with them a horrible little girl who can knock you over just by opening her mouth…
It’s no wonder that Tyrone gets injured. But events go from bad to worse when he goes missing on a simple visit to the doctor. Where has he gone? Has he left the team? Or has something far worse happened?
Sally has to go undercover to find him, but it’s an assignment she may not survive…
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Book Three – Stormfront
Paperback 978-1-923360-53-2
Ebook 978-1-923360-27-3
Age group: 10-14
The mysterious Project Icarus. The fate of a dead superhero. A town with a secret.
The members of NEST are faced with their most baffling adventure yet. The grave of their dearly departed team member, Peter, has been disturbed—from the inside. How is that possible? Where is his body?
Can a dead superhero come back to life?
In their quest for answers, Tyrone, Nigel and Lara travel to the tiny town of Elben, Pennsylvania, to investigate a strange ghost who’s been stalking the citizens. The ghost seems to be living in the town’s local haunted house. Of course, ghosts aren’t real and, if they were, they certainly couldn’t harm the living.
Could they?
With Tyrone and the others trying to solve the mystery of Peter, Sally follows up on the deaths of her parents. Her quest takes her and Brock to Florida to investigate the mysterious Project Icarus. What they find there will answer some of her questions—as long as she survives the experience.
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Book Four – Past Shadows
Paperback 978-1-923360-54-9
Ebook 978-1-923360-28-0
Age group: 10-14
The kidnapping of a young girl. A brother returns from the past. Shared premonitions about an end of the world disaster.
Sometimes the past comes back to haunt you…
Lara meets the members of the Brain’s Trust as she follows up on her premonition of Earthly destruction. The Brain’s Trust are a group of precogs who welcome her as one of their own. They’ve all had similar visions about the end of the world. They know it’s going to happen. The problem is working out how to stop it!
At the same time, Tyrone is contacted by someone he never expected to hear from again: Flynn, his brother. Flynn’s in trouble and Tyrone can save him, but his journey will take him back to the streets.
Meanwhile, Sally is called upon to investigate the kidnapping of a young girl. A ransom has got to be paid to guarantee the girl’s return, but a lot of things can go wrong. Especially when the ransom exchange is happening in a cemetery!
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Book Five – One Small Step
Paperback 978-1-923360-55-6
Ebook 978-1-923360-29-7
Age group: 10-14
Intergalactic travel. A dying friend. An out of control computer.
Will Brock survive? His life hangs in the balance when he makes the catastrophic decision to remodify himself. Death looks certain—until Lara and Nigel decide to use unconventional methods to try to save him.
Lara will travel inside Brock’s mind to find out why he’s dying. What she finds there will explain what made Brock the person he is. At the same time, Sally and Tyrone are sent to the CEAK (Close Encounters All Kinds) Institute to help their scientists on a mission. CEAK has developed a new technology called Jumpspace.
It can transport people across the galaxy in the blink of an eye. There’s just one problem. The first expedition sent to another world has not returned.
A rescue mission to save the expedition will pit Sally and Tyrone against their greatest adversary yet—a computer with a hatred of all living things…
The Steampunk Detective Adventures
Book One – The Firebird Mystery
Paperback 978-1-923360-00-6
Ebook 978-1-923360-01-3
Age group: 10 -14
Welcome to London.
A city of smoke and fog, filled with airships, steamcars and towers soaring into space…
Jack Mason was a circus acrobat before his parents died. Now an orphan, he’s trapped inside Sunnyside Orphanage, the gloomiest place in London.
That’s until the famous detective, Ignatius Doyle, employs him as his new assistant. And when Scarlet Bell seeks assistance to find her missing father, they’re flung headlong into a baffling mystery spanning centuries.
What could the Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci and a secret society have to do with Scarlet’s missing father?
And how is Doyle’s evil nemesis, Professor M, involved?
It seems the future of the world is at stake…
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Book Two – The Secret Abyss
Paperback 978-1-923360-02-0
Ebook 978-1-923360-03-7
Age group: 10 -14
A deadly assassin. A mysterious weapon. A nation on the brink of war.
When the world’s deadliest assassin – The Chameleon – escapes from a high-security prison in the English countryside, Jack and his friends vow to track him down in their most dangerous case yet.
Travelling to New York, a bustling city filled with airships, steamcars and exciting new ideas, they uncover a dangerous plot that threatens the president’s life and brings the nation to the brink of civil war.
Can Jack track down the Chameleon in time? And just what is the mysterious Whip of Fire that has the power to wreak destruction across the globe?
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Book Three – The Broken Sun
Paperback 978-1-923360-04-4
Ebook 978-1-923360-05-1
Age group: 10 -14
An ancient artefact. A mysterious robbery. A deadly attack.
Jack, Scarlet and Mr Doyle embark on a hunt across Europe to locate the Broken Sun – an ancient artefact said to lead to the lost city of Atlantis – when it’s stolen from the British Museum.
But just as the Broken Sun is within reach, Gloria, their beloved secretary is mysteriously poisoned.
In a race against time to find the antidote, the team uncovers a deadly plan that will strike at the very heart of government.
And no one has banked on another shocking discovery – that Mr Doyle’s long-dead son may still be alive…
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Book Four – The Monster Within
Paperback 978-1-923360-06-8
Ebook 978-1-923360-07-5
Age group: 10 -14
London under attack. A mysterious creature. A potion that promises unlimited power.
After a series of bombings across London, Jack, Scarlet and Mr Doyle are drawn into yet another baffling mystery: the sighting of a monster in the underground sewers.
Before they can investigate, the team must travel to Spain to chase down a deadly group of terrorists.
But just as they close in, Jack and Scarlet are kidnapped.
Can Mr Doyle find them in time?
While, back in London, the monster is now on the loose. Will his true origins be uncovered before he wreaks more deadly destruction across the city?
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Book Five – The Lost Sword
Paperback 978-1-923360-08-2
Ebook 978-1-923360-09-9
Age group: 10 -14
An underwater city. A mysterious ninja. A missing sword that could change the world.
As the dark clouds of another war loom, Jack, Scarlet and Mr Doyle travel from the grimy streets of London to the vast neon – bright metropolis of Tokyo.
They’re on a secret mission for the British government: to locate the Kusanagi sword, an ancient relic believed to have magical powers. If they can find the sword, the Emperor of Japan promises to keep the peace between his nation and the Allies.
But in Tokyo they soon discover that the Nazis are after the sword, too.
And they will stop at nothing to achieve world domination…
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A Rosie Ryan Cozy Mystery
Book One – Sun, Surf and Murder
Paperback 978-1-923360-39-6
Ebook 978-1-923360-30-3
Age group: Adult
A female reporter. A hunky cop. A cute dog. A baffling mystery.
Did Edna Crayborne really see a woman getting strangled in the ground floor window of the old Bailey house? Rosie Ryan isn’t sure. As a journalist with the Cape Carson Gazette, Rosie’s always on the lookout for a big news story. And the Bailey house does have a reputation as the most haunted house in town. After all, it’s the place where the infamous Bailey killings happened all those years ago.
Of course, that’s old history now. Or is it?
Rosie’s determined to discover the truth—and she doesn’t have to do it alone. Helping her out is her quirky librarian friend, Kim Chen who is also determined to get Rosie a new boyfriend. Fortunately, there’s a hunky new cop in town, Todd Parker, although he’s more interested in finding criminals than finding a girlfriend. Then there’s Rosie’s sassy eighty-three year old Grandmother, Nan Ryan, who is busily man-chasing as well!
Rosie’s trying to catch a killer. But if she’s not careful, she could become the killer’s next victim…
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Book Two – Rings, Rocks and Murder
Paperback 978-1-923360-40-2
Ebook 978-1-923360-31-0
Age group: Adult
A lighthouse murder. A crazy Cupcake Festival. A baffling clue.
Reporter Rosie Ryan isn’t looking forward to her latest assignment. She’d rather be doing almost anything else than staying with famous actress, Katy Dark, and her entourage at the old Lighthouse Inn. Even if there is a quirky coincidence among the other guests: all six of them have names that start with the letter C.
But coincidence quickly becomes chaos when murder happens and the only clue is the letter C scrawled in the victim’s own blood. One of them is a killer, but—which one?
Local hunky cop, Todd Parker, is already busy dealing with the craziness of the Annual Cupcake Festival. This leaves Rosie to take on the case. Unfortunately, she’s also got to focus on judging the cupcake contest – and the contestants take baking very seriously.
Along with her dog, Trixie, and her librarian friend, Kim Chen, Rosie works to solve the baffling mystery. She also has to deal with Kim’s love life. Her ex-boyfriend is in town and she’s more starry-eyed than ever.
Will Rosie catch the killer before they strike again?
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Book Three – Knives, Knots and Murder
Paperback 978-1-923360-41-9
Ebook 978-1-923360-32-7
Age group: Adult
A mysterious note. A string of unrelated deaths. A legendary monster.
Is there a killer at work in the tiny town of Port Logan? Rosie Ryan is sceptical when she receives the anonymous note about a recent death in the nearby town of Port Logan:
So strange, all these deaths in Port Logan. And now, Stewart Bard.
It doesn’t make sense. Stewart Bard was killed by a falling rock while walking along the coast. But when Rosie and her librarian friend Kim Chen investigate, they discover that Port Logan has had more than its string of strange deaths.
Staying in Port Logan means boarding with Nola and Monica, the old ladies from the Cape Carson Mystery Book Club. They’re interesting cooks, although whole lemons in a stew seems a little unorthodox to Rosie.
Could there be a killer in the area? Are the deaths unrelated accidents? And, strangest of all, what exactly is in Nola and Monica’s stew that makes it so tasty?
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Book Four – Flowers, Fish and Murder
Paperback 978-1-923360-42-6
Ebook 978-1-923360-33-4
Age group: Adult
A spooky séance. A missing ornament. A double murder.
Can Vivian Shelly really speak to the dead?
Rosie’s not a believer, but her doubts are pushed to the limit when she attends one of Vivian’s séances. There’s something weird about the whole event. Something otherworldly. And the event gets even stranger when murder comes calling…
This is confusing enough, but then Rosie’s editor, Harry, wants her to interview a local sculpture who makes totems of celebrities. Rosie can’t make up her mind if they’re creepy or simply kooky! There’s a fine line between art and obsession – and sometimes that line gets crossed!
The whole gang is back: Rosie’s quirky librarian friend, Kim Chen, the town’s hottest cop, Todd Parker, and the sassiest grandmother to be found on the south coast, Nan Ryan. Good thing Trixie the beagle is there.
After all, someone’s got to keep this crazy crowd under control…
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Book Five – Pizza, Pugs and Murder
Paperback 978-1-923360-43-3
Ebook 978-1-923360-34-1
Age group: Adult
An accident that’s not an accident. A perilous pizza. A pug who knows too much…
No one believes Celia Spalt when she gets up at the Storytelling Tent and tells everyone she once witnessed a murder. After all, Celia’s an old lady, and her mind’s on the way out.
But when she unexpectedly dies, Rosie begins to wonder if there could be something more to her story. Celia lived at Sandcastle Village, a gated community that’s supposed to keep its residents safe from the world. But only a month before, Joe Porter slipped, fell and also died.
Could he have been murdered? Possibly. After all, he was the most hated person in the village…
This story’s got it all: pizza clues, a rambunctious pug, and an annual Trash and Treasure sale where no one knows the difference between trash and treasure!
To make matters worse, Rosie’s best friend, Kim Chen, has a phobia she’s never revealed to Rosie before. It seems some people are afraid of the strangest things…
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Book Six – Aliens, Apples and Murder
Paperback 978-1-923360-37-2
Ebook 978-1-923360-35-8
Age group: Adult
A UFO conference. A cold case. A missing man.
Rosie Ryan faces her toughest challenge ever when she’s asked to investigate the death of Hailey Lawrence. The writer was on the verge of international fame with her first novel. Did her death really an accident? Or was she murdered by a jealous rival?
At the same time, Rosie has to deal with the annual Australian Flying Saucer Association conference. It’s being held in Cape Carson for the first time, and she’s been asked to assist. She wouldn’t have said yes, but there’s been a terrible misunderstanding, and now she has to chair the panels. It can’t be too difficult. Can it?
She’s sure there’s intelligent life somewhere out there, but she’s not so sure about down here…
Our intrepid reporter is back again with her best friend, Kim Chen, her feisty grandmother, Nan, and Todd Parker, the local cop. Good thing Trixie’s there to keep everything under control!
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Book Seven – Cats, Castles and Murder
Paperback 978-1-923360-38-9
Ebook 978-1-923360-36-5
Age group: Adult
Death. A castle. A posse of cats.
Rosie isn’t sure what to expect when she gets an invitation to Carlyle Castle.
The castle has stood in the heart of the Australian countryside for years, inhabited only by its reclusive owner, Alex Carlyle, and his two servants. Alex is convinced that one of his children want him dead. The question is – which one? Alex wants Rosie to watch and listen when the family come to visit, but all does not go to plan, however, when death strikes unexpectedly.
At the same time, movie making is happening in Cape Carson, and involves plenty of feline actors. But everyone’s not happy. Some people think that cats and movies don’t mix, and is desperate to get the movie stopped – even if it means that someone has to get hurt!
Rosie’s best friend, Kim Chen, wants a role in the movie. And a lack of talent or experience shouldn’t be a hurdle.
Should it?
Standalone Novels
Balloon Girls
Paperback 978-1-923360-10-5
Ebook 978-1-923360-11-2
Age group: 9-14
Times are tough in the small town of Yallaroo where Ally Simpson has lived her whole life. The entire area is in drought and people are going broke or moving away.
So when Ally hears about a competition to win the trip of a lifetime to visit the Smithsonian Museum in the USA, she knows she’s got to do everything she can to try and win.
Ally enlists her best friends Harmony and Ping to help. Her plan? To send a video camera to the edge of space, and prove once and for all that the earth is round.
At first, Ally is pretty sure she’s got the contest stitched up.
But then, as one disaster after another derails her plans, she begins to learn the importance of staying grounded even while she’s aiming for the sky…
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The Boy from Earth
Paperback 978-1-923360-12-9
Ebook 978-1-923360-13-6
Age group: 9-14
Twelve-year-old Bobby Baxter isn’t exactly the bravest kid on Earth. His list of things that scare him is up to number 689, and they include lightning, crowds, spiders, crocodiles, alien abductions, falling from great heights, falling from small heights and eggs.
So when he finds out that he’s the first Earthling ever chosen to attend the famous Galactic Space Academy, light years away from home, he’s terrified.
And that’s before he discovers that someone at the academy wants the boy from Earth gone—permanently!
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A Toaster on Mars
Paperback 978-1-923360-14-3
Ebook 978-1-923360-15-0
Age group: 14 – Adult
The year is 2509 and Earth is a rather polluted blue dot that suffers from global warming, overpopulation and not enough people using deodorant.
Blake Carter, star agent with the Planetary Bureau of Investigation, isn’t having a good day. First he’s beaten up by a bunch of religious zealots, and then he’s assigned a robot—sorry, cyborg—as his new partner, right before his ex-wife calls to tell him his daughter has gone missing.
His car keeps criticising his driving, and finally, to top things off, the world is held to ransom by his nemesis, evil genius Bartholomew Badde.
Can things get any worse?
Yes!