Terror on Tour (Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys)
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| Author | Carolyn Keene and Franklin W. Dixon |
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| Cover artist | Karin Paprocki |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys Super Mystery |
| Genre(s) | Detective, Mystery novel |
| Publisher | Aladdin Paperbacks |
| Publication date | June 2007 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 207 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN-13: 978-1-4169-6 |
| Followed by | Danger Overseas |
Terror on Tour is the first book in the Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys Super Mystery series. It was first published in June 2007 by Aladdin Paperbacks (an imprint of Simon & Schuster), and is not to be confused with the first book in the previous series, Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys SuperMystery (1988-1998).[1]
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American Teens Against Crime (ATAC for short) thinking someone wants to disrupt the biggest rock concert of the year, Rockapazooma (all the proceeds of the show go to environmental groups), they send their two best undercover agents, Frank and Joe Hardy to the concert to be on the look out for anything suspicious.[2]
At around the same time Frank and Joe arrive at Rockapazooma, amateur detective Nancy Drew and friends, Bess Marvin, George Fayne, arrive at the concert too, unlike the Hardys, they have come just for fun, along with Nancy’s boyfriend - Ned Nickerson, who is covering the event for his hometown’s newspaper.[2]
Nancy isn’t there long before she stumbles into the Hardy’s investigation, and meets Frank and Joe, who are going by the names Jack and Jimmy Leyland. When Nancy starts asking questions, the undercover brothers try to lose her in the crowd, but she follows them and overhears them talking about ATAC. Nancy then tells Frank and Joe what she heard. At first they pretend not to know what she’s talking about, but finally give up and admit that they are agents for ATAC. After Nancy finds out 'Jack' and 'Jimmy Leyland' are actually the Hardy boys, both the undercover brothers and girl detective start working together on the mystery.[2]
A few hours later, a teen-age girl, named Deirdre 'DeeDee' Shannon is kidnapped. Her kidnappers then announce over the PA system that if Kijani (the twenty-year-old lead singer of a band called Royal We, who is from a little country in Africa. She and her parents fled the country when it was taken over by a man named Abrafo) doesn’t come to the stage they will kill Deirdre. With Bess’s and George’s help, Nancy and the Hardys find out that the kidnappers are named the Death Brothers. Hoping to get their old jobs (as Abrafo’s assassins) back, the Death Brothers plan to capture Kijani, and then hand her over to Abrafo, knowing that with Kijani as his prisoner, her parents will do whatever he demands.[2]
While Nancy and Joe head for the stage where Deirdre is being held, Frank thinks up a plan to stop the Death Brothers and save DeeDee’s life. With the help of Bess and George, Frank puts his plan into action. First Bess picks the lock to get into the backstagecontrol room, then George hacks into the state-of-the-art sound system, and turns up the speakers to deafen everyone (except Frank who brought earplugs to the concert and had them in his pocket), and disables the electric wires so the Death Brothers can't fry Deirdre. Almost unaffected by the sound, Frank goes on stage - where Nancy, Joe, and the Death Brothers, are all on their knees, with hands over their ears, screaming with pain – and tosses both Death Brothers' guns (that they dropped) out of reach. George then turns off the sound system, and a second later a stampede of police officers and security guards come on stage to arrest the Death Brothers.[2]
The book ends with Nancy thinking about joining ATAC, but before she can ask the Hardys about it, Frank and Joe slip away. Nancy says to her self:
I’ll let them get away with it this time, but they’d better look out if our paths ever cross again…’’
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