Open Fire: Battle Boy 1
By (Author) Charlie Carter
Pan Macmillan Australia
Pan Australia
1st September 2009
Australia
Children
Fiction
A823.40
Paperback
96
Width 132mm, Height 194mm, Spine 7mm
114g
(Classified) Mission 1: Open Fire - Spain, 1587, Sir Francis Drake's ship; Mission objective: collect Drake's DNA for the Warrior Gene Bank. Operative profile - Code name: Battle Boy 005 (BB005); Real name: Napoleon Augustus Smythe; Age: 11 years old; Assignment: Operation Battle Book; Controller: Professor Perdu; Duty: To operate as a human data-collecting device (HD-CD); Survival gear: SimulSkin (high-tech, skin-coloured body armour); Mission motto: Spying on the past.
To protect the identity of his military sources, very little can be revealed about Charlie Carter. We can, however, say this: he is a well-known operative in the field of children's books.