New Releases by Andy Briggs

When a mysterious benefactor springs him from Diablo Island penitentiary, Jake Hunter is back on the run, trying to locate the man who wiped out his family''s memories of him and dodging the efforts of the hero Chameleon to track him down. Unfortunately, his benefactor wants something in return-for Jake to kidnap the president of the United States. Sure, Jake''s the most powerful supervillain on earth, but will the ordinary schoolkid in him be up to the deadly challenge? Dark Hunter is an action-packed adventure, full of even more dastardly villains and exciting showdowns and intricately linked to the anti-series, Hero.com.

Jake Hunter is your quintessential bully-tough, mean, and misunderstood. While he likes the power gotten from picking on the nerdy kids, he''s sick of his dumb buddies, and he craves some adventure in his dull life. So when he stumbles upon a Web site called Villain.net that lets him download superpowers, he''s eager to try out the laser vision and the radioactivity. But when he joins forces with a supervillain named Basilisk, Jake must decide if he truly wants to accept the consequences of being a villain. And of course, little does he know that Hero.com is out there too, recruiting teens for the other side. . . .

The villain Basilisk is back, and his nefarious plan to infiltrate Hero.com and take it offline has worked-leaving Toby, Pete, Lorna, and Emily as the only Downloaders left on the planet! It''s up to the four friends to stop Basilisk before his computer virus completely destroys the Hero Foundation . . . but with glitchy, short-circuiting powers and some contention among their ranks, it''ll be no simple task to outwit, outpace, and outplot the evil mastermind. Virus Attack is an action-packed adventure, full of even more creative and exciting powers and intricately linked to the anti-series, Villian.net.

What lies in the depths of the jungle? Escaping a dark secret, Robbie Canler joins an illegal logging team in the Congo jungle. Now they''''re under siege from a sinister force. When the daughter of the camp''s boss, Jane Porter, goes missing they assume bloodthirsty rebel soldiers have kidnapped her. Robbie sets out on a rescue mission - unaware he is being watched... Are the rumours of a feral man raised by wild apes true? If so, can the mysterious untamed savage be trusted to help them?

With the mightiest of superpowers almost within his grasp, Jake Hunter is on the edge of true villainous greatness. Nobody will be able to stop him from toppling the Foundation and Council of Evil once and for all. But the Dark Hunter is playing a high-stakes game with the world. How far will he go to complete his plans?

Robots powered by Hero.com are starting to take on a life of their own. A new villain called NanoMite is taking control. The fiendish cyborg and his nanite swarm are taking control of every electric appliance on the planet. If they are not stopped the entire planet will be plunged back into the Dark Ages. The world needs a hero and fast . . .

After Toby, Pete, Lorna, and Emily download powers off the Internet to become superheroes, they must band together to save Toby and Lorna''s mother from the evil supervillain Doc Tempest.