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PAUL FOX (2020)

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Full Name: Paul Fox
Nationality: British
Organization: MI5
Occupation Agent

Creator: Glenn Carter
Time Span: 2020 - 2023

ABOUT THE SERIES

Paul Fox is an agent with MI2.

Well, some blurbs list his organization as MI5 and that is correct but it is also MI2, as explained by Natalie, Fox's recruiter, when she told him and others, "MI2 originally handled Russian and Scandinavian Intelligence after the first world war but it's functions were absorbed by MI3 in 1941. We have resurrected the name and now it's basically the youth division of MI5. Its primary purpose is to keep the country safe." So, when Fox and others agree to become operatives, they are working for MI2 which is part of MI5.

Natalie goes on to explain the reason for the need of MI2: "There are increasing numbers of teenagers being radicalised in the UK and as you saw today, they are extremely dangerous. They have access to the latest technology and sophisticated weapons systems. We are recruiting teenagers like you to combat this threat and, if required, to infiltrate these cells. You would receive excellent training and development at our HQ in London. We try to fit most of the training within school holidays, although there is some time off school required".

The 'others' mentioned above are his twin sister Rachel and their best friend, Sharav. Paul Fox gets the name glory in this adventure series because, well, he is usually the one who starts the action but both Rachel and Sharav like to get involved in the excitement almost as much as Paul. Rachel does a really good job of hiding her craving for danger by being the one always trying to stop Paul from leaping into a situation but when he does jump, she is usually right behind him to help save the day. Sharav is less keen, possibly because he suffers from narcolepsy since he was 10 and tends to fall asleep super easily (I mean super super easily).

One of the things that makes Paul Fox unique and thus makes him quite valuable to MI2 is his superb situational awareness, or as it is put to us in the opening line of the first recorded adventure, "Paul Fox sees things that others don't". He is not seeing ghosts or visitors from another dimension; he just notices things that seem out of place, or "wrong" as he puts it. Rachel pooh-poohs this skill as just more "delusional fantasies" but as we find in the first skirmish they are involved in, the sitting Prime Minister of England would be the late PM if not for Fox having seen a teenage boy with a backpack that struck him as "something's not right".

YOUNG ADULT BOOKS

Number of Books:1
First Appearance:2020
Last Appearance:2023

1 Operation Sabre Operation Sabre
Written by Glenn Carter
Copyright: 2020

"Who's Sabre and why is everyone trying to kidnap Paul Fox?
These are the questions that Paul, Rachel and their friend Sharav are faced with at the start of this heart stopping adventure. They have been recruited to the youth division of MI5 and are drawn into a race against time to uncover the double agent and find their father before it’s too late. In one the most exciting books of the year we are taken on a race across the UK and Ireland with Paul Fox. But what's behind Paul's bravado? This is more than a spy adventure. It's a spy adventure with soul."
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2 Mission Midnight Mission Midnight
Written by Glenn Carter
Copyright: 2023

"Join Paul Fox, Rachel, and Sharav on the most exciting spy adventure of the year. In Mission Midnight the stakes are higher than ever. A mysterious object crashes into the sea, causing a total blackout. Millions of lives are at risk. Can our heroes retrieve the object before it falls into the wrong hands? And can Paul find the answer to question that drives him? Who killed his sister?"
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MY COMMENTS

Where were young adult spy fiction series like this one when I was growing up? Okay, the author of these, Glenn Cater, was not alive back then. Wished he had been and had been writing these delightful spy series. I would have devoured them.

They are far fetched big time and that does not matter. Paul Fox is a fun fellow to follow and Rachel is interesting, too, and so is Sharav once you wake him up yet again.

I recommend this series to any parent who would like to interest his/her child in tasteful spy fiction.

GRADE

My Grade: B

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