Mark Walden

Pupils and staff at HIVE are horrified to discover that Dr Nero has been captured by the forces of HOPE, the Hostile Operative Prosecution Executive. The only way to find Nero and the truth behind the lies is to escape HIVE.

The Higher Institute of Villainous Education, or H.I.V.E., is where children with a talent for wrongdoing are sent to be trained as criminal masterminds. Two very bad students, Otto Malpense and Wing Manchu, are not keen to stay for the compulsory six years… 

Otto and Wing have special permission to leave H.I.V.E.'s secret island location to attend a funeral. But before they can reach their destination, the duo are ambushed - just who would risk assassinating the star pupil of the Higher Institute of Villainous Education?