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The Assassins is a terrorist group in The Hardy Boys Casefiles series of books. Calling themselves simply 'the Assassins', these terrorists-for-hire are the primary adversaries of the Hardy Boys and The Network in the Casefiles series. The Assassins appear to have originated in the 13th or 14th century, although no one knows for sure. [1]
The Hardy Boys, Frank and Joe Hardy, are fictional characters who appear in several mystery series for children and teens. The series revolves around the teenagers acting as amateur sleuths, solving cases that stumped their adult counterparts. The characters were created by American writer Edward Stratemeyer, the founder of book-packaging firm Stratemeyer Syndicate. The books themselves were written by several ghostwriters under the collective pseudonym Franklin W. Dixon.
The Network is an organization in The Hardy Boys Casefiles book series.
All Assassins have a hollow tooth to hold a cyanide capsule, and agents have standing orders to die rather than be captured. Although when captured most Assassins do use the capsule, some of the higher ranks in the organization are not so quick to do so.
A cyanide is a chemical compound that contains the group C≡N. This group, known as the cyano group, consists of a carbon atom triple-bonded to a nitrogen atom.
"Nobody takes an Assassin alive." -Al-Rousasa in Casefiles #1, Dead on Target
Dead on Target is the first book in The Hardy Boys Casefiles series. It was first published in the year 1987.
Frank and Joe fight the Assassins not only because they are dangerous to the world, but because they are the group responsible for the death of Joe's girlfriend, Iola Morton.
