H.I.V.E.

By Mark Walden

Book #1 in the H.I.V.E series

Trapped in a villain academy, Otto plots a daring escape.

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320 pages· 65,909 words· Est. 9 hour read

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Thirteen-year-old Otto Malpense is whisked away to H.I.V.E., a secret school for future supervillains hidden in a volcano. With no way out, Otto and his new friends—a martial arts expert, a diamond thief, and a computer genius—must outsmart their captors. Can they defy the odds and escape this sinister academy, or will they be trapped in a life of villainy forever? The stakes are high, and the clock is ticking as Otto devises a plan that could change everything.

From the publisher

HIGHER INSTITUTE OF VILLAINOUS EDUCATION Otto Malpense may only be thirteen years old, but so far he has managed to run the orphanage where he lives, and he has come up with a plan clever enough to trick the most powerful man in the country. He is the perfect candidate to become the world’s next supervillain. That is why he ends up at H.I.V.E., handpicked to become a member of the incoming class. The students have been kidnapped and brought to a secluded island inside a seemingly active volcano, where the school has resided for decades. All the kids are elite; they are the most athletic, the most technically advanced, and the smartest in the country. Inside the cavernous marble rooms, floodlit hangars, and steel doors, the students are enrolled in Villainy Studies and Stealth and Evasion 101. But what Otto soon comes to realize is that this is a six-year program, and leaving is not an option. With the help of his new friends: an athletic martial-arts expert; a world-famous, beautiful diamond thief; and a spunky computer genius – the only other people who seem to want to leave – can Otto achieve what has never been done before and break out of H.I.V.E.?

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