The Network (The Hardy Boys)
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The Network is an organization in The Hardy Boys
Casefiles book series.
The Network is a top-secret government agency
in the same branch as the CIA and FBI, but even to most people in those organizations, The Network is unknown. After the events of Casefiles #6 The Crowning Terror and Ultra-Thriller
#2 The Alien Factor, The Network took over control of everything that Espionage Resources (another top-secret government agency) ran, due to high corruption in that agency.
Frank and Joe Hardy (the Hardy boys of the title) first found out about The Network (in Dead on Target
) when they met one of the agency’s best agents, the Gray Man. At the time the Hardys were investigating a car bombing that had killed Joe’s girlfriend, Iola Morton. The Gray Man offered to help find the person who planted the bomb, the Hardys accepted his offer and with his help Frank and Joe learned that it was not a person that planted the bomb, but The Network’s worst enemy - a world wide group of terrorist group that calls themselves The Assassins
. Since then the Hardys have worked with the Network on many cases.
The Hardy Boys
The Hardy Boys, Frank and Joe Hardy, are fictional teenage brothers and amateur detectives who appear in various mystery series for children and teens....
Casefiles book series.
The Network is a top-secret government agency
Government agency
A government or state agency is a permanent or semi-permanent organization in the machinery of government that is responsible for the oversight and administration of specific functions, such as an intelligence agency. There is a notable variety of agency types...
in the same branch as the CIA and FBI, but even to most people in those organizations, The Network is unknown. After the events of Casefiles #6 The Crowning Terror and Ultra-Thriller
Ultra-Thriller
The Ultra-Thriller series is a detective/action fiction series published between August 1992 and June 1993 by Archway Paperbacks . It was a spin-off of The Hardy Boys Casefiles and the Tom Swift IV series and joined boy inventor Tom Swift with the crime solving Hardy boys, Frank & Joe. Although...
#2 The Alien Factor, The Network took over control of everything that Espionage Resources (another top-secret government agency) ran, due to high corruption in that agency.
Frank and Joe Hardy (the Hardy boys of the title) first found out about The Network (in Dead on Target
Dead On Target
Dead on Target is the first book in The Hardy Boys Casefiles series. It was first published in the year 1987.-Plot summary:Joe Hardy's girlfriend, Iola Morton, is caught in a car bomb and dies. Joe is unable to believe it. The brothers begin their investigation...
) when they met one of the agency’s best agents, the Gray Man. At the time the Hardys were investigating a car bombing that had killed Joe’s girlfriend, Iola Morton. The Gray Man offered to help find the person who planted the bomb, the Hardys accepted his offer and with his help Frank and Joe learned that it was not a person that planted the bomb, but The Network’s worst enemy - a world wide group of terrorist group that calls themselves The Assassins
The Assassins (The Hardy Boys)
The Assassins is a terrorist group in The Hardy Boys Casefiles series of books.Calling themselves simply 'the Assassins', these terrorists-for-hire are the primary adversaries of the Hardy Boys and The Network in the Casefiles series....
. Since then the Hardys have worked with the Network on many cases.