Evil, Inc. (Hardy Boys)

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name = Evil, Inc.
title_orig =
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image_caption =
author = Franklin W. Dixon
illustrator =
cover_artist = Morgan Kane
country = United States
language = English
series = The Hardy Boys Casefiles
genre = Young adult novel
publisher = Archway Paperbacks
pub_date = April 1987
english_pub_date =
media_type = Print (Paperback)
pages = 153 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-671-62559-4
preceded_by = Dead on Target
followed_by = Cult of Crime

"Evil, Inc." is the 2nd book in the Hardy Boys Casefiles series.

Plot summary

The Hardy Boys come to France for a vacation. When the brothers spot The Gray Man in Manhattan, they learn about an investigation he is working on regarding a terrorist organization in France. While the Gray Man does not want the brothers involved because they are too young and the case is too dangerous, the Hardys secretly work to get themselves in the center of the investigation and soon they find themselves undercover in France as a couple of gun dealers who are into the punk rock scene, complete with dyed hair and grungy clothes. They get caught up in a company called Renyard and Company, which secretly sells guns and other illegal things to people. They are almost killed in a machine when a lady known as Denise helps them escape. The book has an interesting storyline in which almost everybody is betraying each other - Renyard and Company, Denise and many other people. The Hardy Boys are also captured by the French special police known as the Sǔreté. They eventually escape by beating everybody up.

Soon when the book is about to end, they are chased by the Chairman of Renyard & Company and his other partners. The people try to kill them but Denise saves them at the right moment. The case is then solved by the Hardy Boys and they return back to USA.

Appearances

Characters

*Denise
*Dupree
*Emile
*François
*Henri
*Jacques
*Karl
*Marcelle
*Simon
*Armand
*Johnny Cash
*Charles Duval
*Carlos Gonzales
*Mr. Goya
*Arthur E. Gray
*Fenton Hardy
*Frank Hardy
*Joe Hardy
*Maurice Reynard
*Paul Reynard
*Pierre Reynard
*Yves Reynard

Locations

*Bayport (mentioned only)
*Bois de Boulogne
*Broadway
*Café des Nations
*Café duchamp
*Chateau Reynard
*English Channel
*Fifth Avenue
*Forty-second street
*Grand Central Station
*Houston Street
*Kennedy International Airport
*Normandy
*Paris
*Pyrenees Mountains
*Seine River
*Sûertê
*Times Square

Business and organizations

*Air France
*Algeria
*Assassins (mentioned only)
*Bayeux
*Bosque Nationalists
*Death Wish
*Gare St. Lazare
*Hollywood Heaven
*Hotel Pierre
*Jackson Brothers, The
*Katz's Delicatessen
*Network
*Paris Metro
*Poison Pens, The
*Pompidou Center
*Reynard and Company ('Reynard et Cie')
*Spanish Civil Guard
*Tour Montparnasse

Other editions

Evil, Inc. was published in other languages, they are:
* Czech
* French
* Dutch

Other information

*In "Evil, Inc.", the Hardy Boys have never gone so deep inside a crime ring. It is also considered by some fans, as a very 'dark' book.

*The UK edition of "Evil, Inc.", was renamed to "Evil, Incorporated".

External links

* [http://www.hardyboyscasefiles.com/index.php?nav=network&sub=cf&book=002 The Hardy Boys Casefiles Encyclopedia]