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|isbn=9781408851418
|pages=336
|publisher=Bloomsbury ChildrensChildren's Books
|date=March 2014
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408851415</amazonuk>
|summary=Five young people live in an abandoned bunker beneath the London Underground. Using their combined skills they carry out the kind of actions Robin Hood would be proud of: stealing from the rich to give to the poor. But now they've tangled with a very dangerous man indeed, and this time they may not escape alive.
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"What skills would you need to trick the rich and powerful out of their ill-gotten gains? A posse of brilliant lawyers and accountants with elastic consciences? A cache of guns and bombs? Well, maybe, although it is very possible that all that will do is to turn you into villains as dirty as your marks. And, if you'll forgive the sudden descent into street-speak, that's not the way these five young Urban Outlaws roll.
They start with exceptional computer skills, obviously – there's not much that can be achieved these days in the world of finance and surveillance without that. That's Jack's role – he's the team's hacker and plan-maker extraordinaire. Plus, they need access to the most advanced technology around, and most of that they have to build for themselves. Take a bow, Charlie, who also functions as a sort of den-mother for the group. And more often than not, even with all that tech-power, you still have to have actual, physical access to the places and machines you want to, well, mess with. That's where free runner Slink comes in: he can climb walls as if he had suction pads instead of hands and feet, slip in and out of the smallest of spaces and cross the whole city without ever being spotted. And while these three are out and about, they need someone back home taking control of the bad guys' own spy cameras to check on them, doing the in-depth research and alerting his team to any unexpected glitches. That's Obi, who despite the fact that he's younger than the other two keeps trying to persuade everyone to call him Mission Commander. Sadly, much as they like and value him, he'll be waiting a long, long time for that particular title – say, until several minutes after the end of the world. And last of all, there's the new kid, Wren, whom they found curled up in a nest of blankets outside a homeless shelter, irony intended. She's cute, she's got the kind of winsome, fragile looks that can charm the dourest and beefiest of guards, and she'll pick your pocket and be at the other end of the street before you can even finish saying 'Hello little girl. Are you lost?'
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