Action Agency: Space Mission
A children's book I wrote towards the end of 2008 and during the first few weeks of 2009, Action Agency: Space Mission is based very heavily on the games I used to play as a child with my sister and two cousins. Given the opportunity I'd very much like to write more books like this in a series which I could quite easily extend to perhaps five books or more if required. I certainly have lots more ideas in this area I'd like to try out. For a synopsis of the first book in the series and two sample chapters, please follow the links.
I am currently actively seeking a publishing contract for this work.
Synopsis
Jack is just an ordinary boy living at home with his parents and sister Vanessa. Ordinary that is, except in his adventures. Jack loves to play with Lego and invent things for his battles against the "bad guys". This first book in the series begins on Jack's birthday with Jack hard at work creating a wrist-mounted computer with parts from his box of extra-special Lego bits plus missiles from a Lego kit he is given for his birthday. Before long, alarms start to sound and Jack and his sister find themselves thrown into a race to get to Headquarters as soon as possible and face the threat of the "bad guys" who are apparently attacking Spy City.
Taking a lift which is disguised as the bench in their back garden the two siblings enter an underground garage where their mechanic Ted is hard at work. There are no vehicles available to them other than Jack's red motorbike. The two spies soon speed off on their way to Spy City where they meet Sparky (their boss) and see the extent of the "bad guys" attack through monitor screens. Just then, two other important agents, their cousins Alan and Lisa, arrive and join them in another race, this time to the space hangar where they all board a spaceship which they take into orbit to engage the "bad guys" in battle. With missiles Jack and Vanessa have recently added to their spaceship the four spies destroy the first two ships to find that there is one additional "bad guy" space ship left for them to face and they are now out of ammunition so they must do only what they can: they must board the final "bad guy" ship.
Here we see first hand the four spies working together through the "bad guy" spaceship, hacking into computers and breaking through sealed hatches to plant a bomb and escape the ship before it blows into a million pieces.[1] With no small amount of daring the four spies race for their life to get back to their own ship and return back down to earth and Spy City where they are greeted by Sparky who congratulates them on a job well-done. The book ends with the four cousins returning home to the tea party Jack's parents have prepared for him. Jack then phones his uncle (the relative who gave him the Lego kit) and thanks him for the parts that really did come in use!
[1] Note: we never actually see the "bad guys" first hand; this is part of the mystery of the game the four cousins are playing.