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Cover artist
  
Morgan Kane

Publisher
  
Archway Paperback

Media type
  
Print (Paperback)

Author
  
Franklin W. Dixon

Country
  
United States of America

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Language
  
English

Publication date
  
April 1987

Originally published
  
April 1987

Followed by
  
Evil, Inc.

OCLC
  
15529282

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Series
  
The Hardy Boys Casefiles

Genres
  
Fiction, Children's literature, Mystery

Similar
  
Franklin W Dixon books, The Hardy Boys Casefiles books, Mystery books

Dead on Target is the first book in The Hardy Boys Casefiles series. It was first published in the year 1987.

Contents

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. They meet a person who calls himself the "Gray Man," from a government agency called "The Network." Frank and Joe take his help to get to the person who planted the bomb. Soon they learn that it is not a person, but a group of terrorists who call themselves "Assassins."

Joe vows to kill them. As the story progresses, some Assassins are killed in encounters while others escape. They come to know that the person who killed Iola is a member of The Assassins named Al-Rousasa.

When the book is about to end, Frank, Joe, Chet (who is Iola's brother) and their other friends begin searching a shopping mall when they learn that the Assassins plan to kill a presidential candidate giving a speech in Bayport. Soon, Joe and Frank have a fight with Al-Rousasa at the top floor. The fight ends with Al-Rousasa falling to his death, and Joe remembers what he had been told - "Nobody takes an Assassin alive."

Important changes in Dead on Target

Casefile #1, Dead on Target, was a drastic change from the established Hardy Boys world.

  • Iola Morton is killed by a terrorist car bomb in the first volume.
  • The books become more grisly. Frank and Joe use firearms and investigate murders.
  • Chapters no longer have titles, and there are no illustrations.
  • The boys collaborate with the Gray Man, who represents a cloak-and-dagger crimefighting unit. (Similar to SKOOL and UGLI from The Secret Agent on Flight 101 ...)

    • References

    Dead on Target (The Hardy Boys) Wikipedia
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