The Hardy Boys: The Pentagon Spy - Franklin W. Dixon

Frank & Joe Hardy are the teenage sons of famous private detective Fenton Hardy & his wife Laura. Together, (& sometimes from help with family & friends) they investigate all sorts of crimes & strange occurences.... The Pentagon Spy was published in the US in 1980 & was the sixty first in the series. The book first appeared in the UK in 1981 & was numbered 59 when it was published by Armada. This book gets straight to the point on the first page with Fenton Hardy telling Frank & Joe all about the case he's working on. A civilian employee of the navy, Clifford Hunter, has smuggled a top secret document out of the ...  Read the complete review

The Pentagon Spy is the third of the newer series of Hardy Boys books, but the 61st in total. In 1979, previous publishers Grosset & Dunlap lost the rights to the books, and Simon & Schuster took over the publishing side of the books. Since then, they have flourished very well, and many consider the newer series to contain a higher quality of storytelling and ghost writing. The books are all published under the pseudonym Franklin W Dixon, but are written by a number of ghost writers and have been from the very first book. This, the 61st book, features two different mysteries which the Hardys must solve. The Hardy Boys are Frank and Joe Hardy, teenage ...  Read the complete review