American Teens Against Crime

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American Teens Against Crime, (ATAC) is a fictional organization in the The Hardy Boys Undercover Brothers book series.

ATAC is a top secret government agency co-founded by Fenton Hardy. He created it when he realized that there are some places where an adult spy (a FBI or CIA agent) would stand out too much. Because of this the FBI has, on at least one occasion, relied on ATAC to solve a case. The very first ATAC agents were Fenton’s sons, Frank and Joe. The agency sends their agents a video game disc (mission CD) with details on their latest mission; after the disc has been viewed it re-formats into a regular music CD.

ATAC has a secret handshake that only agents know. It goes like this: two hard up-and-down shakes followed by a wrist-grab, then a fist-touch, and one last up-and-down shake. In Mission #4, Thrill Ride, Joe used this hand-shake when they first met Vijay Patel, to make sure that he was a real member of ATAC.

Fenton no longer runs ATAC himself; a man that simply goes by Q (sometimes Q.T.) is the current director of the agency. In the Graphic Novel adaptation of the series, Nigel Penhurst is also a top man at ATAC.

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[edit] Ranks of ATAC

  • Trainee
  • Field agent
  • Undercover agent
  • Mentor agent
  • Director

[edit] ATAC members

Main article: American Teens Against Crime members
  • Ernie Bickerstaff (former member).[1]
  • Carl Bruckner (former member) (appears in the graphic novels only)[2]
  • Cammie[3]
  • Fenton Hardy (former member)
  • Frank Hardy (undercover agent)[4]
  • Joe Hardy (undercover agent)[5]
  • Edward Mundy (undercover agent)[6]
  • Vijay Patel (trainee)[7]
  • Nigel Penhurst (appears in graphic novels only)[8]
  • Q.T. (director)[9]

[edit] Non-members with knowledge of ATAC

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ Ernie Captain Creamy' Bickerstaff | The Hardy Boys Undercover Brothers Encyclopedia
  2. ^ a b The Hardy Boys Graphic Novel #10 A Hardy's Day Night
  3. ^ The Hardy Boys Undercover Brothers #10 Blown Away
  4. ^ Frank Hardy | The Hardy Boys Undercover Brothers Encyclopedia
  5. ^ Joe Irving Hardy | The Hardy Boys Undercover Brothers Encyclopedia
  6. ^ | The Hardy Boys Undercover Brothers Encyclopedia
  7. ^ Vijay Patel | The Hardy Boys Undercover Brothers Encyclopedia
  8. ^ a b c Hardy Boys Graphic Novel #7 The Opposite Numbers
  9. ^ Q. T. | The Hardy Boys Undercover Brothers Encyclopedia
  10. ^ Ezra Collig | The Hardy Boys Undercover Brothers Encyclopedia
  11. ^ a b c d Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys #1 Terror on Tour
  12. ^ Adam Franklin | The Hardy Boys Undercover Brothers Encyclopedia
  13. ^ The Hardy Boys Undercover Brothers #19 Foul Play
  14. ^ Conrad Reilly | The Hardy Boys Undercover Brothers Encyclopedia

[edit] External links

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